Sentences with phrase «testing anthrax»

With reports that North Korea is testing anthrax loads on ICBMs in addition to its nuclear capabilities, and increasingly frequent joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, cryptocurrency's just another dangerous ingredient in the hunt for a tipping point.

A U.S. bioethics committee has said that the country may consider testing the anthrax vaccine in children.

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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.

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.

Tests at Britain's lab for dangerous pathogens at Porton Down have found signs of anthrax infection in two Scottish victims.

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.

In the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, mailbox - size machines gather air in major urban areas to be tested for DNA of smallpox, anthrax, plague - causing Yersina pestis, and other pathogens on a federal list.

When the waters vanished around Vozrozhdeniya Island, a Soviet germ - warfare facility for open - air testing of anthrax, plague, and smallpox in the southern Aral Sea, U.S. officials in 2000 became so worried that they sent funds and experts to clean up buried stockpiles of the remaining lethal bacteria.

He now says that the most plausible explanation is that the release somehow happened during tests of an anthrax vaccine.

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.

When other scientists became skeptical of the plague and anthrax findings, the original scientists performed follow - up tests and analyses.