Sentences with phrase «vaccine stockpile»

Cholera now menaces earthquake - stricken Nepal — but for the first time ever, Nepal wants to use a global vaccine stockpile to help keep it at bay

This is because of a vaccine stockpile set up in response to the cholera that struck Haiti after an earthquake in 2010 — cholera carried there, ironically, by Nepalese peacekeepers.

Then they can change parameters for each scenario — adjusting variables including disease biology and virulence — to help determine action plans for things like vaccine stockpiles, vaccine efficacy, and deploying field personnel.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS USDA CVB, Ames, IA 2014 - Present global vaccine manager Administer daily activities of vaccine stockpiles to ensure suitability and availability of vaccines and diagnostics in the event of animal health emergencies.

Not exact matches

The government said its goal was to stockpile enough doses of the Sanofi vaccine to protect 20 million people as a stopgap measure until a more potent vaccine is available.

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.

One million doses of the vaccine had been allocated from a global stockpile and immunizations had been set to begin this month; now, the first half - million doses that were en route to the country will be rerouted to other at - risk countries.

The good news is that this year the FDA approved the first bird flu vaccine and announced plans to stockpile it for emergency use during a crisis.

Then more vaccine can be flown in from the WHO stockpile.

But for now, Waldor, Clemens and Hotez, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine are calling for a global stockpile of cholera vaccine so there will be enough for emergencies such as Haiti.

In 2002, President George W. Bush claimed that the United States had stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine to protect the entire country.

«I'd love to have a stockpile of vaccine with both antibody and cell - mediated capabilities,» says Thomas Reichert of the Entropy Research Institute in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

And because they work against all flu, such vaccines can be stockpiled to prepare for pandemics.

«These results imply that, of the options currently available utilizing adjuvants included in the national stockpile, based on the immune response data, AS03 should be considered a first - line adjuvant for strategies incorporating an inactivated H7N9 vaccine in adults,» the authors write.

For health officials, it could inform decisions on how to stockpile and distribute vaccines and antiviral drugs, and in the case of a virulent outbreak, whether other measures, like closing schools, are necessary.

When reports leaked out that both Iraq and North Korea might have obtained supplies of the smallpox virus, the United States responded by spending tens of millions of dollars to stockpile smallpox vaccines.

As this goes to press, there is one FDA - approved vaccine for H5N1 in the United States, stockpiled by the government but not for sale.

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.»

They note that supply concerns are being addressed by a global effort to stockpile 2 million doses of cholera vaccine.

WHO's emergency stockpile of yellow fever vaccine, which was depleted earlier this year, has been restocked and is now back to 5 million doses.

Such a prediction, says Kawaoka, could then be used to more effectively develop the vaccine virus stockpiles the world needs each flu season.

But many governments have stockpiled vaccine in case bioterrorists get their hands on a potential hidden cache of the virus.

Stockpiles of cholera and yellow fever vaccine are limited, but a new cholera vaccine manufacturer may help ease the shortage.

Loans will also be used to help countries stockpile antiviral drugs, enhance animal and human health surveillance systems, develop preparedness plans, and support vaccine research.

Having a vaccine that would protect against multiple viral hemorrhagic fever threats is a cherished goal of emergency response planners, who wouldn't have to worry about keeping supplies of three separate vaccines in emergency stockpiles.

States have been given vehicles to stockpile vaccines and drugs against threat agents, and state agencies play important roles in confirming and mitigating infectious disease outbreaks.

In addition to the benefit of an immediate infusion of significant cash which strengthens our ability to fund our clinical development programs, we believe that there is potential upside in this transaction in the form of milestones and royalties should the rPA anthrax vaccine be selected for government stockpiling.