Sentences with phrase «include anthrax»

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.

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.

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

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin.

He has also made significant achievements in the development and application of critically necessary immunizations including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

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.

Although no one was sickened in the anthrax incident, the probe found numerous missteps, including that the bacteria were stored in unlocked refrigerators in unrestricted hallways.

Following 9/11 and the anthrax letters in 2001, the field of biodefense significantly expanded to address global health, public health preparedness and response, medical countermeasure development, and civilian biological research, some of which includes select agents.

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.

The inspectors, from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), found additional problems, including expired disinfectant, anthrax stored in unsecure freezers and labs, samples stored in Ziploc bags, and a lack of preparation at CDC's clinic for a large anthrax exposure.

The FBI contends that USAMRIID researcher Bruce Ivins was responsible for mailing the 2001 anthrax letters, including this one.

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

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.

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including a «a state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with a 1,000 - liter bioreactor that can be used to make cell culture or microbial biologic products» and rights to specified percentages of future net sales relating to its anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including rights to a portion of future net sales on its anthrax technology and a state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including a «state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with a 1,000 - liter bioreactor that can be used to make cell culture or microbial biologic products» and rights to specified percentages of future net sales relating to its anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

Teams continue to treat injured and sick animals with medications including antibiotics and de-worming medicine, they are also providing anthrax and rabies vaccinations for thousands of animals.

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

Other possibly beneficial vaccines include botulism, anthrax, Equine viral arteritis, Equine influenza, Equine herpesvirus (EHV), Potomac horse fever, rotavirus and streptococcus equi.