Morrisville drugmaker acquiring firm behind anthrax treatment
To further its effort of becoming a leader in biodefense, a Triangle-based firm is merging with a company that contracts with the federal government to produce an anthrax treatment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - December 22, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news

Dr. Sherif R. Zaki, Acclaimed Disease Detective, Dies at 65
He helped identify numerous viruses, including Covid-19, as well as the bioterrorism attack that spread anthrax in 2001. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sam Roberts Tags: Zaki, Sherif R Deaths (Obituaries) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Anthrax Ebola Virus SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Source Type: news

Federal Government Cuts Ties With Troubled Vaccine Maker
Emergent BioSolutions ruined millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Now its $600 million deal is canceled. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chris Hamby Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Government Contracts and Procurement Anthrax Emergent BioSolutions Inc AstraZeneca PLC Food and Drug Administration Health and Human Services Department Johnson & Kramer, Robert G Source Type: news

Twenty years after the anthrax terrorist attacks of 2001: lessons learned and unlearned for the CoViD-19 response - Gostin LO, Nuzzo JB.
The 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, resulted in deep national reflection. Less remembered are the events that began to unfold 7 days later as anonymous letters laced with deadly anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) spores began ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Why Are Gulf Coast Welders Dying From Anthrax - Like Disease?
(Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge)
Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge - October 18, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Infections, Pulmonology, Preventive Medicine, News, Source Type: news

Notes from the Field: Fatal Anthrax Pneumonia in Welders and Other Metalworkers Caused by Bacillus cereus Group Bacteria Containing Anthrax Toxin Genes - U.S. Gulf Coast States, 1994-2020
This report describes two instances of fatal anthrax pneumonia in welders. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - October 14, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Anthrax Diseases & Conditions Healthy Living MMWR Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report Pneumonia Workplace Safety Source Type: news

Covid car parks to galactic lockdown: fascinating but futile quarantine ideas
Whether atomic priesthoods, 50ft concrete spikes or burying astronauts in concrete, humanity ’s attempts to keep free from infection are examined in Until Proven SafeIn January 2020, just a few days before the first Covid-19-infected passengers landed in the United States on a flight from Wuhan, preparations were already being made in a converted car park in Omaha, Nebraska. By complete coincidence, after a decade of planning,the country ’s first National Quarantine Unit opened its doors here on the eve of a global pandemic.The timing couldn ’t have been better. The need for such a place had been mooted ever since 9/...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Wainwright Tags: Art and design Culture Architecture Books Infectious diseases Medical research Science Microbiology World news Source Type: news

Hippos and anthrax
(University of California - Santa Barbara) Hippopotamus aren't the first thing that come to mind when considering epidemiology and disease ecology. And yet these amphibious megafauna offered UC Santa Barbara ecologist Keenan Stears a window into the progression of an anthrax outbreak that struck Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, in the dry season of 2017. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - June 15, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Rand Paul blames Richard Marx tweet for Anthrax scare, calls for Republicans to leave Twitter: 'I almost died'
Republican Sen. Rand Paul told Fox News on Tuesday that a tweet posted by singer-songwriter Richard Marx could be partially responsible... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mozambique: Mozambique Will Vaccinate Over Two Million Livestock
[AIM] Maputo -- A livestock vaccination drive underway across Mozambique will immunise more than two million animals against diseases such as anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis, lumpy skin disease, Newcastle fever and rabies, according to a report in Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 14, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

What Are Toxin-Mediated Diseases?
Discussion A poison is a generic term for “a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.” A toxin is more specific and is “any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight, and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc., and such plant and animal toxins as ricin and snake venom.” A toxin does not include those substances that are made synthetically produced. Venom is also a toxin that is used by animals and insects for predation or defense which can cause ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 12, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

How Emergent BioSolutions Put an ‘Extraordinary Burden’ on the U.S.’s Troubled Stockpile
The shortage of lifesaving medical equipment last year was a searing example of the government ’s failed coronavirus response. As health workers resorted to wearing trash bags, one Maryland company profited by selling anthrax vaccines to the country’s emergency reserve. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chris Hamby and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Shortages Protective Clothing and Gear Anthrax Stockpiling Biological and Chemical Warfare Terrorism Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Emergent BioSolutions Inc Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority Brigh Source Type: news

How one firm put an ‘extraordinary burden’ on the nation’s troubled stockpile
The shortage of lifesaving medical equipment last year was a searing example of the government's failed coronavirus response. As health workers resorts to wearing trash bags, one Maryland company profited by selling anthrax vaccines to the country's emergency reserve. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 8, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Chris Hamby and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Source Type: news

The Autopsy, a Fading Practice, Revealed Secrets of COVID-19
By MARION RENAULT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy. When the virus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess what was causing its strange constellation of symptoms: What could explain why patients were losing their sense of smell and taste, developing skin rashes, struggling to breathe and reporting memory loss on top of flu-like coughs and aches? At hospital morgues, which have been steadily losing prominence and funding over several decades, pathologists were busily dissecting the disease’s first victims — and finding some answers. “W...
Source: JEMS Latest News - December 27, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news

The Autopsy, a Fading Practice, Revealed Secrets of COVID-19
By MARION RENAULT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy. When the virus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess what was causing its strange constellation of symptoms: What could explain why patients were losing their sense of smell and taste, developing skin rashes, struggling to breathe and reporting memory loss on top of flu-like coughs and aches? At hospital morgues, which have been steadily losing prominence and funding over several decades, pathologists were busily dissecting the disease’s first victims — and finding some answers. “W...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 27, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news