Sentences with phrase «with anthrax»

In the United States, anthrax occasionally pops up along the cattle trails of the Old West, Stewart said, because cows stricken with anthrax were left to rot.

(D) The average number of somatic hypermutations in the pandemic H1N1 patient plasmablast variable region genes compared with primary IgG plasmablast responses to vaccinia (small pox) or the anthrax vaccine, or after at least 4 boosters with the anthrax vaccine.

«Bluntly, it would take care of problems we had with the anthrax and the flu,» Pirkle says.

The panel's report, released on 14 June, makes a host of recommendations aimed at reducing the so - called «insider threat» — the possibility that a rogue researcher might use select agents to cause deliberate harm, as U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins allegedly did with anthrax.

The study, under review at the journal mBio and released today on the preprint server bioRxiv, answers one of the many remaining questions about the Soviet Union's clandestine biowarfare program by showing that scientists hadn't tinkered with the anthrax strain to make it more resistant to antibiotics or vaccines.

No employees have become ill with anthrax symptoms.

A bioterrorist attack with anthrax could render an area infective for generations.

Fagbuyi, who served in Iraq as a U.S. Army Major and received the anthrax vaccine himself, says that some military members, first responders, and scientists working with anthrax — many of whom get the vaccine now — have expressed interest in having their children vaccinated, too.

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.

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.

The scientists analysing the anthrax are comparing its DNA with a library of strains collected from all over the world.

«I work with the US Department of Defense to help devise countermeasures to bioterror,» says Poland, who is working to improve vaccines for smallpox and anthrax.

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.

«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 discovery took on greater significance in light of the September 11 attacks, with the ensuing fears of crop duster - borne pathogens and the swift, unexpected deaths from mail - distributed anthrax.

Both the anthrax lab and an influenza lab — which mistakenly shipped samples that were contaminated with H5N1 to a U.S. Department of Agriculture poultry lab — were closed.

To trace the source of the anthrax, the FBI used «microbial forensics,» a new approach that combines established microbiology techniques with DNA sequencing.

Safety lapses in CDC labs captured headlines in 2014 when scientists at a high - level biosecurity lab did not properly inactivate anthrax bacteria before sending the material to labs with fewer safeguards.

After a seven - year investigation of the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the FBI was preparing in July to charge a single scientist, Bruce Ivins of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, with the crimes.

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.

CDC's internal anthrax investigation concluded that minimizing the number of labs and staff at CDC working with select agents would improve safety.

In the fall of 2001, just weeks after the trauma of 11 September, letters laced with powdered anthrax caused death and panic in the United States.

The new BSL - 3 spaces now under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California would enable the agency to work with agents such as anthrax and plague.

When the team immersed the setup in a beaker containing the target DNA, the chip - bound DNA yanked the target strands out of solution, filling the space between the electrodes with a patchy lawn of anthrax DNA.

At a 10 June press conference, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), which was developing an anthrax vaccine for children, announced that six people involved with the research are now taking ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic.

In Ekaterinburg, the group met pathologists who had carried out autopsies on the anthrax victims, and had kept their notes, along with microscope slides and tissue samples.

In one case, Pasteur publicly predicted in 1881 that he could protect sheep from anthrax with a vaccine made from his method of weakening the virus with oxygen.

New technique detects target DNA (here, anthrax) by using it to link fixed strands with «probe» strands attached to current - carrying gold nanoparticles.

The panel does not rule out the use of behavioral assessment tools to determine if researchers are psychologically fit to work with pathogens such as anthrax.

In 1917, German spy Baron Otto von Rosen was caught in Norway possessing lumps of sugar embedded with glass capillaries filled with a liquid holding spores of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax.

Anthrax, for example, can be inactivated via established protocols such as boiling for 10 minutes or treating it with certain chemicals, yet federal employees failed to follow any of the approved protocols to kill the deadly bacteria before sending out anthrax samples in June, potentially endangering scores of federal employees.

«It is very likely that one or more of you know this person,» who, according to FBI's profile, is a «standoffish» lab worker with access to anthrax and the equipment to refine it, wrote Washington Field Office assistant director Van Harp.

His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world, paddling down the Orinoco or racing through anthrax — infested Siberia.

She remained in Sheffield to complete a PhD and short post-doc in the lab of Professor Beining Chen, primarily working to screen and characterise small molecule inhibitors of anthrax toxins as part of a collaboration with the Health Protection Agency at Porton Down.

With congressional office buildings closed all or most of last week after anthrax spores were detected on Capitol Hill Oct. 15, displaced lawmakers and staff on the education committees did their best to keep working.

When a genetically engineered strain of anthrax with exceptional potency is released at San Quentin State Prison, Stone quickly becomes both the prime suspect in the terror attack and the FBI's best hope for stopping an imminent national catastrophe.

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

After a first look, it seems to me that all they get is the equivalent amount of OXGN stock as VXGN stock (nothing special there besides the headache of having to do DD on OXGN), incentive payment for negotiating an end to the lease, and incentive milestone payment in connection with the awarding of a government contract to Emergent for the anthrax vaccine.

a. the merger goes through, and you get stock worth $ 0.60 (at today's prices) plus some optionality with the lease windown and anthrax vaccine royalties, or,

These events relate primarily to settlement of VaxGen's obligations under its lease of facilities in South San Francisco, and to the potential award of a procurement contract to Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) by the U.S. Government for which VaxGen is eligible to receive milestone and royalty payments in connection with Emergent BioSolutions» May 2008 acquisition of VaxGen's recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

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.

In December 2006, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated its contract with VXGN for the development and delivery of a next - generation anthrax vaccine.

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.

The SAC will claim a cultural triumph, without spending... him an anthrax jag - with a Scud missile.

But as with this week's anthrax outbreak, if we continue to lock in future warming, we won't be able to say we weren't warned of the consequences.

To learn more about how the anthrax outbreak itself may have begun, I spoke with Vladimir Romanovsky, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska — Fairbanks who has studied Arctic microbes and is one of the world's foremost experts on Siberian permafrost.

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

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.