Join our Newsletter
Browse by Category
-
Most Read This Week
- WHO reports wild poliovirus outbreak in Africa
- Study shows vitamin C kills drug-resistant strands of TB
- WIAAP opposes bill that may allow unvaccinated health care employees
- Agenus initiates enrollment in brain tumor vaccine trial
- Expert doubts CDC promotion of influenza vaccine
- Swine-origin flu variant cases continue in U.S.
- Scientist map critical portion of anti-influenza antibody
- Boy dies from superbug infection at NIH hospital
- Progress made on new TB drug
Tags
Africa AIDS anthrax Avian flu Canada Cancer CDC Centers for Disease Control chicken pox China cholera Dengue fever Detection technology Ebola H1N1 H5N1 Hepatitis Hepatitis B HIV HPV Human papillomavirus immunization India Infectious disease Influenza Malaria Maryland Measles Medical Countermeasures meningitis MRSA Mumps News Pertussis pneumonia polio Preparedness research rotavirus Tuberculosis vaccine development West Nile virus whooping cough World Health Organization Yellow Fever
Tag Archives: anthrax
Anthrax outbreak in Scotland called worst in 50 years
The 2009-2010 anthrax outbreak among drug users in Scotland has been called the largest in the United Kingdom in 50 years. Read More »
Progress reported on second-gen anthrax vaccine
Further development progress was announced this week by PharmAthene for its second generation rPA anthrax vaccine SparVax. Read More »
Biden’s brother released from hospital after powder scare
Francis Biden, the brother of Vice President Joe Biden, was hospitalized overnight after a white powder from a manila envelope sent from India fell onto his skin upon opening the mail. Read More »
Calif. man charged over anthrax hoax letters
A California man was recently charged with two felonies for sending letters filled with a white powder to the city halls in San Carlos and South San Francisco over the summer. Read More »