Sentences with phrase «like anthrax»

Now we are securing buildings for other things like anthrax and terrorist attacks,» says Larry Conlon, director of asset services for Cushman & Wakefield in New York.

This is like anthrax combined with swine flu when it comes to threats.

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

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.

The money has been spent on things like improving sensors to detect an attack and on building up a stockpile of drugs to combat various pathogens like anthrax.

The research is funded by the National Science Foundation through Berg's CAREER award and also by the Army Research Office for its potential to monitor for biological weapons like anthrax.

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

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 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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

Discovery of a new antibiotic After screening only a handful of soil bacteria, Mitchell's group discovered a novel product, cyclothiazomycin C (CC), an antibiotic that is effective against gram - positive bacteria like Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) and Staphylococcus aureus (Staph / MRSA).

B. subtilis is harmless to humans, but some dangerous bacteria like Bacillus anthracis, the organism that causes anthrax, also form spores by a similar mechanism.

«To Russian and American scientists, plague and anthrax seem like mirror images of one another.