LONDON (Reuters) - British health authorities issued an alert to drug users on Friday after a drug injecting heroin user in London tested ...
Despite anthrax case, beat goes on for drum circle fans For drum circle devotees, the beat goes on. The case of a young ...
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 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 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 ...
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 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, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
