Anthrax

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Anthrax outbreak linked to heroin

AP News 33 days ago

Scotland: Anthrax outbreak linked to contaminated heroin has caused 12 cases, 6 deaths Health officials say contaminated heroin may have caused at least a dozen recent cases of anthrax including six deaths in Glasgow. A spokesman at Scotland's Health Protection Agency said ...

CDC: Same anthrax strain in drums, sick NH woman

AP News 40 days ago

CDC confirms strain of anthrax that sickened NH woman matches contaminated drums, outlet The anthrax spores that infected a New Hampshire woman are the same strain as spores found on an electrical outlet and two drums used at a gathering she attended ...

Human Genome sees FDA delay with anthrax treatment

AP News 85 days ago

Human Genome Sciences faces FDA regulatory delay on anthrax treatment Human Genome Sciences Inc. said Monday the Food and Drug Administration will not approve the company's anthrax treatment until it receives additional information on the potential drug. The drug candidate, called raxibacumab ...

U.S. panel: More study on Human Genome anthrax drug

Reuters US Online Report Science News 105 days ago

SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Animal data suggests a proposed Human Genome Sciences Inc drug may help people exposed to anthrax but more study is needed to show the treatment adds benefit beyond antibiotics alone, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday. ...

FDA reviews Human Genome's anthrax medication

AP News 109 days ago

FDA says Human Genome anthrax drug works in animals, questions remain about human use The Food and Drug Administration says Human Genome Sciences' ABthrax successfully treated animals exposed to anthrax, though the agency has questions about its use in humans. The Rockville, ...

History and Treatment of Anthrax

Inform 118 days ago

Many people associate anthrax with the 2001 outbreak of bioterrorism in the United States, though this attack was merely one of hundreds of anthrax episodes that have plagued the globe since as far back as classical Greek and Roman times. Anthrax is ...

Appeals court upholds dismissal of vaccine suit

AP News 133 days ago

Appeals court rules against military service members who sued over anthrax vaccine requirement A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a program that requires some members of the military to be vaccinated against anthrax over objections from service members who say the ...

Calif. man convicted in nationwide anthrax scare

AP News 145 days ago

Federal jury convicts Calif. man for mailing anthrax hoax letters A federal jury has convicted a 66-year-old Sacramento man for mailing more than 100 anthrax hoax letters last year. Marc Keyser was convicted Thursday on three counts of sending the letters and ...

Biological Weapons: Anthrax

Inform 148 days ago

Anthrax was first used as a biological weapon by the Japanese in the 1930s. By the 1940s, allied troops had begun experimenting with anthrax, known as Agent N. The United States however, dismantled its anthrax arsenal in 1971 under President Nixon who ...

Facts About Anthrax

Inform 148 days ago

Anthrax is an extremely lethal disease which affects both humans and animals. The disease is not contagious and cannot be transmitted directly from human to human. Anthrax can however live in extremely adverse environments, surviving on clothing or skin in the form ...

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