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
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 Administration and Leadership - 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: Journal of Emergency Medical Services 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 Operations - 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 Special Topics - December 27, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news
Control and Prevention of Anthrax, Texas, USA, 2019 Control and Prevention of Anthrax, Texas, USA, 2019
Animal outbreaks of anthrax present a human risk for contracting the disease. What measures may help control outbreaks and prevent transmission?Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - December 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
Obiltoxaximab Receives Marketing Authorization From European Commission For The Treatment Of Inhalation Anthrax
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 2, 2020 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. (Elusys) today announced that the European Commission has approved obiltoxaximab, the company's monoclonal antibody (mAb) anthrax antitoxin for the treat... Biopharmaceuticals, Regulatory Elusys Therapeutics, obiltoxaximab, anthrax (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - December 2, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Villagers in Hospital After Consuming Anthrax Infected Meat
[New Zimbabwe] Two villagers were admitted to St Peter's Hospital here after consuming meat suspected to have been infected with anthrax. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 21, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Anthrax Outbreak Hits Chipinge
[263Chat] At least two persons were last week admitted with anthrax related symptoms in Chipinge, prompting officials to dispatch a rapid response team to vaccinate local livestock. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 20, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
2001 Anthrax Attacks Fast Facts
Check out CNN's Fast Facts to learn more about the 2001 anthrax attacks also known as Amerithrax. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - June 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Vaccine Against COVID-19 Would Be the Latest Success in a Long Scientific History
Here’s betting you wouldn’t want anyone blowing smallpox scabs up your nose. But you might feel differently if you lived in 15th century China.
Long ago, the Chinese recognized that people who had contracted smallpox once were immune to reinfection. They came up with the idea of preserving scabs from individuals who had suffered mild cases, drying them out, crushing them to a powder and blowing them up the nostril. For boys it was the right nostril, for girls it was the left because, well, 15th century.
That is how the story of vaccines usually begins, though that version is decidedly incomplete. For one thing,...
Source: TIME: Science - May 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer health Source Type: news
The Baltimore Bioterrorism Expert Who Inspired South Korea ’s COVID-19 Response
On Oct. 2, 2001, a 62-year-old photojournalist named Bob Stevens became the first victim of a coordinated series of anthrax attacks to be admitted to hospital. Stevens inhaled the deadly pathogen after opening one of several letters laced with anthrax spores which were mailed to the offices of prominent senators and media outlets across the U.S. Over the next seven weeks, he and four others would die as a result of their exposure.
For a shell-shocked nation still reeling from the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history on September 11, it was a disturbing realization that there was a new wave of challenges to Am...
Source: TIME: Health - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Cox Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
