Sentences with phrase «about anthrax»

«There's nothing fundamentally unusual about the anthrax vaccine.»

We worry about anthrax; they worry about plague,» says Paul Keim, a molecular biologist at Northern Arizona University who specializes in the DNA fingerprinting of dangerous pathogens.

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

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

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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.

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

«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

Amid concerns about airborne anthrax and stealth nuclear attacks, it's easy to forget that terrorism is largely a low - budget, low - tech affair.

At two hearings on the Hill today, U.S. lawmakers talked about the need to strengthen the monitoring of research on select agents, deadly microorganisms like anthrax and smallpox that could potentially be used as weapons.

The study, under review at the journal mBio and released today on the preprint server bioRxiv, answers one of the many remaining questions about the Soviet Union's clandestine biowarfare program by showing that scientists hadn't tinkered with the anthrax strain to make it more resistant to antibiotics or vaccines.

Related sites Timothy Read's home page ScienceNOW story about TIGR's plan to sequence additional strains of anthrax Anthrax information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Among the latter group, about 46 out of every thousand were hospitalized per year of observation; among those who had received a dose of anthrax vaccine, that number was only 25 — a statistically significant difference.

The problem began about 3 months ago when a Frederick, Maryland, lab supplier shipped an anthrax sample that it thought had been heat - killed.

The argument over the US anthrax attacks of 2001 looks set to continue, as politicians begin asking tough questions about the investigation.

The anthrax scare at a US lab is unlikely to make anyone ill, but it suggests we should be very careful about scientists creating highly dangerous pathogens

False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear Marc Siegel; Wiley, $ 24.95 SARS, anthrax, and mad cow disease have in the past decade sickened and killed only a tiny minority of humanity.

Farik and Ilija receive a deadly biological anthrax shipment and prepare for an attack inside a Los Angeles shopping mall; Darwyn's supervisor Ray Fuller becomes suspicious about the disappearance of a cell member.

Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →

TB, like anthrax, is believed to have originated with agriculture about 9,000 years ago: springing from the soil and passing through the vectors of meat and milk

Trauma surgeon Grace Samuels is deployed to Afghanistan, helping soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries... But a deadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe

Years ago, in the context of the anthrax attacks, I learned about food irradiation, which developing countries increasingly are employing to cut spoilage rates; the technique has just been approved in the United States for spinach and lettuce.

To learn more about how the anthrax outbreak itself may have begun, I spoke with Vladimir Romanovsky, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska — Fairbanks who has studied Arctic microbes and is one of the world's foremost experts on Siberian permafrost.