Sentences with phrase «anthrax disease»

But today, the bacterium Bacillus anthracis that causes the anthrax disease has become a weapon in bioterrorism.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

The first, called bio-bar-code assays, relies on nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to specific disease - causing proteins; these will vastly improve a doctor's ability to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in their early stages and to identify pathogens like anthrax.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

1850s German microbiologist Robert Koch connects a bacterium to a specific disease — bacillus anthracis to the outbreak of anthrax in cattle — and figures out how to grow bacteria in agar cultures in a lab.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.

«In principle, one could save people suffering from cutaneous late - stage anthrax infections and maybe treat a variety of other similar diseases,» said Bier.

We have vaccines now for anthrax and antibiotics for anthrax, and we have some stockpiles and a lot of other preparations for foot - and - mouth disease.»

The U.S. Government monitors over 100 animal diseases, including anthrax and rabies.

But a serendipitous discovery may someday give doctors a new countermeasure against the disease: Researchers report in tomorrow's Science that they have identified a possible mechanism of action for «lethal factor» (LF), a toxic protein produced by the anthrax bacillus that is thought to be one of the principal causes of death in infected individuals.

Like anthrax, diphtheria and botulism, C. diff infection is a toxin - mediated disease.

In July, nearly two dozen government laboratories were locked down after more than 80 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Last week, Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, held an unusual press conference to discuss three separate, recent mistakes involving lab safety with smallpox, influenza, and anthrax.

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

The category would include anthrax, Ebola, Variola major and Variola minor (the two viruses that cause small pox), the Marburg virus, the virus that causes foot and mouth disease, and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin.

Related sites Bali Pulendran's laboratory Web site at the Emory Vaccine Center The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's anthrax Web site

Moreover, he believes that investment in technologies such as chip - based methods to rapidly test blood or tissue samples for the presence of anthrax or smallpox would speed the development of related diagnostic tools for regular diseases.

Following the suicide, the FBI released court documents laying out some of the evidence linking the anthrax spores found in the letters to Ivins's lab at the U.S. Army Medical Institute for Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

In the future, they speculate, specific drugs to block LT may help anthrax patients better fight the disease.

Over the past decade, SNPs have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease — and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August).

MMF is the brainchild of Steve Bellan, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in the epidemiology of wildlife diseases like anthrax, and Juliet Pulliam of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

There's no debating that invading Europeans did introduce diseases that decimated Native American peoples, but anthrax probably wasn't one of them

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.

We carry out translational research programmes to develop infectious disease vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics using animal models of tuberculosis, influenza, HIV / AIDS, Clostridium difficile, meningococcal disease, chlamydia, burkholderia and anthrax, as well as emerging viral diseases such as Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever.

These include MERS, Ebola, anthrax, bubonic plague, and mad cow disease.

According to Piers Millett, a specialist in anti-animal biowarfare from the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, the main targets for terrorists are likely to be rinderpest, anthrax, foot and mouth, swine fever and Newcastle disease, which affects poultry.

Ryan has worked in a wide range of disease fields including cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, anthrax, West Nile virus, leprosy, hookworm disease, schistosomiasis, chikungunya virus, and shigellosis.

Bacillus anthracis is a Gram - positive bacterium that is the causative agent of anthrax, a rare and deadly disease that can infect the host by pulmonary, gastrointestinal (GI) or cutaneous routes [1, 2].

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

They delivered preventive health services including vaccines for rabies, Newcastle Disease, hog cholera and anthrax.

«The anthrax vaccination is reliable and proven to protect livestock from the disease,» said Dr. Andy Schwartz, TAHC Interim Executive Director.

People who live in areas where anthrax has occurred should consider vaccinating their livestock against the disease.

But already last year, a boy was killed and 20 others infected by anthrax released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of a reindeer killed by the bacteria at least 75 years earlier; 2,000 present - day reindeer were infected, too, carrying and spreading the disease beyond the tundra.