Sentences with phrase «us anthrax»

«I don't think anthrax is scary at all compared to this,» Keim told Science Insider back in November 2011.

The company did not suffer any fallout from the Florida anthrax cases, but Leveen harbors grave concerns for the future of direct mail.

The anthrax scare is just going to turn up the heat.

And the anthrax scare will drive up costs further as the U.S. Postal Service integrates new security measures and equipment.

Forced evacuation due to toxic contamination (remember the anthrax scare in 2001?).

The company also has vaccines in clinical development for cholera (Vaxchora), anthrax, HIV and hepatitis A.

Now, the operating assumption is that the anthrax cases, unrelated to bin Laden, are domestic crimes, not acts of war.

Early in the war, the highest US officials, including the president and vice president, encouraged the idea that the anthrax attacks were originating with the bin Laden network.

So sad that we have to worry about anthrax and serial killers these days!

Never thought I would talk about anthrax OR serial killers on my food blog, but hey, there's a first time for everything.

The Houses of Parliament were temporarily closed last night after a powder suspected to be anthrax was found in a main hallway.

Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

There was an anthrax scare at three missions to the U.N. — turns out the mysterious powder mailed to the building was not toxic.

Next thing you know military grade anthrax will start being mailed to Larry Kudlow and Soledad O'Brien.

Climate Camp says coal is one of the worst - polluting energy sources, arguing it is «about as clean as an anthrax sandwich», and denies government claims failure to use coal will produce an «energy gap» in Britain.

Scientists who mapped the DNA of the New York City subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findings.

It recently took a lead role responding to the presence of anthrax among heroin users.

Innate's predecessor company and Collins» company formed Buckler in hopes of developing a treatment for anthrax, but the company never marketed a product or earned a dollar, Grant said.

Dudley's latest research suggests that the hippos» could owe their unique susceptibility to anthrax die - offs to their practice of eating meat that carries the infection — including the bodies of other dead hippos.

Over the course of 22 days, powderized anthrax — a potentially deadly bacterium — was mailed to U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C., and to media outlets in New York and Florida.

Seventeen people were sickened and five died after inhaling the anthrax spores.

Researchers could now see the culprits and distinguish between similar diseases such as anthrax, cholera and, yes, bubonic plague, which was isolated in 1894 and named Yersinia pestis in honor of Swiss microbiologist Alexandre Yersin.

These individuals argued that a different organism, perhaps anthrax or typhus, originally caused the Black Death.

While there, she wanted to repurpose a treatment for anthrax to help clear up staph infections, but wasn't sure how to get money for her idea.

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

He is part of a team cataloging the microbial diversity of U.S. air — in which the scientists have picked up, among other things, very small concentrations of bacteria related to anthrax.

Due to this severity, the CDC has made tularemia a reportable disease, and like the pathogens causing anthrax and plague, it is considered a bioweapon.

He found that not only did Epimerox protect the animals from anthrax, but the bacteria did not develop resistance to the inhibitor.

The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal infection by Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

While they crisscrossed the country, listening to breathless news coverage of anthrax attacks, extremists, and Homeland Security, they faced a much more concrete risk.

«Secondly it shows that this was, would be a viable route for the spread of those other infectious diseases like Bubonic plague and leprosy and anthrax that people had previously suggested might have been spread between East Asia and Europe along the Silk Road.

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

To be identified as Ames in the studies currently underway, the anthrax must either be the American military strain or one that's very similar.

This can help pinpoint the exact strain the unknown anthrax came from.

Ames is more likely than other strains of anthrax to cause disease in animals immunised with the standard US anthrax vaccine, which is now being given to US troops.

But neither the strain nor the physical form of the anthrax is particularly sophisticated, say bioweapons specialists.

In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 1969.

The scientists analysing the anthrax are comparing its DNA with a library of strains collected from all over the world.

Last week, Tom Ridge, President Bush's Homeland Security adviser, stated that the anthrax sent to Florida, NBC and Senator Tom Daschle were all the same strain.

By adding such a layer to the sound source of an ultrasound machine, he was able to destroy 99.9 percent of the spores in a colony of Bacillus thuringiensis, a relative of anthrax, without the use of any contact medium.

Researchers think similar effects contribute to death from anthrax and pandemic flu.

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

And a small batch of anthrax will have undergone many fewer cell divisions than a big batch.

The anthrax mass - produced for weapons in the US was destroyed after 1969.

Development of an atmospheric model that «has emergency response applications, including tracking mercury deposition and anthrax bioterrorism,» would also end, it noted.

«I work with the US Department of Defense to help devise countermeasures to bioterror,» says Poland, who is working to improve vaccines for smallpox and anthrax.

In adults, studies have suggested that the anthrax vaccine is quite safe; it's made with inactivated protein from the anthrax bacteria, much like vaccines that protect against diptheria and tetanus.

The concern was that researchers have tested other vaccines given to children beforehand, to ensure that they're both safe and effective, but the anthrax vaccine never has been given to children.

Computer simulations by the team showed that anthrax could wipe out the Taï forest's population of roughly 400 chimps within the next 150 years.

The standard anthrax vaccine also protects against B. cereus; the team vaccinated about 100 animals in 2012 and 2013 and is now monitoring them.