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War-torn Somalia eradicates polio - 25 Mar 2008
BBC News,Somalia was the last country with smallpox. I wanted to help ensure that we would not be the last place with polio too Somalia's last case of indigenous
Nice try ASM, but enough is enough - 25 Mar 2008
UW Badger Herald,To say that ASM has some flaws is like saying smallpox is just a few pimples. The proposals they’ve actually made can be lampooned at some length — the
Spitzer's woes carry message for all of us - 25 Mar 2008
Greenville News,...a wife who's probably watching CSI for tips on how to hide a body, and political allies who treat him like he has a raging case of smallpox.
SIGA Files Application Supporting Emergency Use Approval for ST-246 - Mar 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),Based on the success to date of our product candidate in trials, we believe that we have the most advanced smallpox treatment in development,
MIT Sensor Sniffs Anthrax, Smallpox in Minutes - Mar 11, 2008
FOXNewsPANTHER can currently detect 24 pathogens, including anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia and E. coli, using just a few dozen particles in a liter of air.
Smallpox vaccine receives modern twist - Mar 17, 2008
Daily Vidette,A new smallpox vaccine offers modern day protection against the disease in the case of an outbreak or bio-terrorist attack. The former smallpox vaccine,
CDC to Destroy Oldest Smallpox Vaccine - Feb 29, 2008
The Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — The government announced Friday that it has said goodbye to one of the world's greatest lifesavers — the oldest smallpox vaccine.
Bio-Sensor Quickly Detects Anthrax, Smallpox And Other Pathogens - Mar 4, 2008
Science Daily (press release)4, 2008) — Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less
Smallpox, HIV: Oil-based Nasal Vaccine Technique Produces Immunity - Feb 28, 2008
Science Daily (press release)We used whole virus in the smallpox vaccine. In the HIV vaccine, we used a single protein. We were able to promote an immune response using either source,"
Nasal Vaccine for Smallpox Confers High Levels of Immunity Without ... - Feb 27, 2008
FOXBusinessVaccinia virus is related to smallpox virus and builds immunity against it. The new vaccine confers a high level of safety because it contains inactivated
Thawing the World’s Freezer - Mar 20, 2008
Scienceline,He could have died of smallpox. Smallpox was a vicious disease before its eradication in the 1970s, but the virus is hardy and can survive long-term storage
DoD changes smallpox vaccine, effects minimal for Marines - Mar 13, 2008
Marines.com...(March 13, 2008) -- The Department of Defense recently changed the type of smallpox vaccine used to protect service members, though the only effect for
Five years later, smallpox preparedness improved - Mar 6, 2008
The Hill,By Jeffrey Young A federal initiative launched in 2003 to vaccinate healthcare workers against smallpox reached only a fraction of the people it sought.
CDC retires one old smallpox vaccine, keeps another - Mar 7, 2008
CIDRAP,Mar 7, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials recently announced plans to get rid of their last remaining stocks of the decades-old smallpox vaccine
Out with old, in with new smallpox vaccine - Mar 6, 2008
FierceBioResearcher,With a new smallpox vaccine accumulating in federal stockpiles, the US government is disposing of millions of doses of Dryvax, the old smallpox vaccine that
New Nasally Smallpox Vaccine Developed - Feb 28, 2008
Associated Content,In fact the study states that the new killed-virus vaccine protects up to 77 times the lethal dose of smallpox. The new nasally delivered smalpox vaccine is
Notice to Readers: Newly Licensed Smallpox Vaccine to Replace Old ... - Feb 28, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),ACAM2000 is a live, vaccinia virus smallpox vaccine that was licensed for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration in August 2007 (1).
Nanotechnology approach shows promise with vaccines - Mar 13, 2008
MLive.com,But University of Michigan scientists recently revealed two studies suggesting that nanoemulsion vaccines helped mice build up immunity to smallpox and HIV.
BARBARIC SCENE ACCURATE - Mar 18, 2008
The Free Lance-Star,BY JIM HALL A doctor makes incisions with a lancet in the arms of Abigail Adams and her children and places smallpox material directly into the wounds.
Nanoemulsion vaccines may boost immune response against smallpox, HIV - Feb 26, 2008
Thaindian.com,Washington, February 27 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System say that the bodys immune response against smallpox and HIV may be
'John Adams' - Mar 14, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Yes, it's interesting, if a bit gruesome, to see early smallpox vaccinations, but not if the price is rendering Abigail Adams mopey and Thomas Jefferson
Sensor uses mice cells to detect anthrax and more on the fly - Mar 5, 2008
EETimes.com...uses genetically engineered mouse immune cells to detect pathogens like anthrax, plague, smallpox, salmonella and E. coli in less than three minutes.
5 years in Iraq: What will victory look like? - Mar 21, 2008
Tucson Citizen,I will always wonder why the administration didn't simply pretend it had found a cache of smallpox or plutonium or nerve gas. "Embedded" as we media were,
HBO's miniseries 'John Adams' portrays 2nd US president, warts and all - Mar 12, 2008
The Canadian Press,Everything from the Boston Massacre and the vote for independence to the Adams family's primitive farm life, smallpox outbreaks and barbarous practices like
Nanoemulsion vaccines effective against HIV? - Feb 28, 2008
ZDNetNow, the same team has shown that nanoemulsion vaccines are effective against smallpox and HIV — at least for mice. The scientists are using an oil-based
Why we do what we do - Mar 24, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,Science and Health states, "We weep because others weep, we yawn because they yawn, and we have smallpox because others have it; but mortal mind,
MIT group develops bio-terror sensor - Mar 8, 2008
Boston Herald,Researchers said their Pentagon-funded Panther device can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in just three minutes - 17 minutes quicker
"John Adams": Nasty, brutish and long - Mar 24, 2008
Kansas City Star,...like the hideous tar-and-feather scene, or when a doctor inoculates Abigail and her children from smallpox with pus from the boil of a sick patient.
A Redman by any other name - Mar 24, 2008
Boston Globe,Considering that European Americans stole Native Americans' land, attempted genocide on them, gave them smallpox-infested blankets, introduced them to
Health Highlights: March 2, 2008 - Mar 2, 2008
Washington Post,The last case of human smallpox was reported in Somalia in 1977. No one in the United States gets smallpox vaccinations anymore, but because of concern
Center for Disease Control and Prevention to Dispose Dryvax Vaccine - Mar 3, 2008
NewsLI,...“Times had changed, and our awareness, sensitivity and tolerance for adverse events associated with vaccines was much greater than during the smallpox
Reluctant Revolutionary - Mar 16, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)Gruesomely cool was the inoculation of the Adams family against smallpox. Traveling the turnpike with a near-dead smallpox victim, the physician razors open
PM Rudd meets Jackie Chan - Mar 8, 2008
Melbourne Herald Sun,Nobel Prize winners like Sir John Eccles, Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel are there as is Frank Fenner, the man who oversaw the eradication of smallpox.
Don’t overdo the isolation - Mar 15, 2008
Daily News & Analysis,Understand that chickenpox is not the same as smallpox; even dried scabs of smallpox — now eradicated — could infect others, chickenpox scabs are not
Meeting focuses on pandemic preparations - Mar 18, 2008
Winnipeg Free Press,...“Given our First Nation history with epidemics of (tuberculosis), influenza and smallpox, we need to be prepared,� said a news release announcing the
Christian Vaccination - Feb 27, 2008
Aledo Times Record,Revelation 3:15-16 HCSB In the 18th century, smallpox was a killer. Those infected would become covered in horrible pustules and die a painful death.
Today in History - Mar 17, 2008
Truro Daily News,...date 290 years ago, in 1718, the first inoculation against disease took place in England, when Mary Wortley Montagu inoculated her son against smallpox.
Study identifies poxvirus mechanism - Feb 26, 2008
The Kaleidoscope,The most familiar member of the poxvirus family, however, may very well be smallpox. “Smallpox has played a gruesome role in human history,� said Walter.
Update: CDC Tosses Out Doses Of Now-Suspect Malaria Vaccine - Feb 29, 2008
AHNDryvax - produced by scraping virus off the skin of infected calves is now replaced by a new-generation smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000.
Are we heading towards the extinction of species? - Mar 12, 2008
GreaterKashmir.com (press release),The smallpox virus was exterminated in the “wild�. This is the closest that humans have come to deliberate elimination of an organisms, and note that
Immunizing NC - Feb 27, 2008
News & Observer,Jenner's vaccine protected against smallpox. He had noticed that people who worked in close contact with cattle and who had a mild form of the disease
I SMELL 'SHARROZ'... - Mar 10, 2008
NascarWHEN I THINK ‘REAL AMERICAN’, THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MY MIND IS A SMALLPOX-FREE INDIAN! LIKE ME! NOT SOME FAT, PIGSKIN, DROOLING, NASCRAP IDIOT!
Bighorns facing smaller habitat - Mar 23, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,Some wildlife experts compare it to the way smallpox and measles decimated American Indians, who lacked immunity to diseases brought to the New World by
The Empire Strikes Back - Mar 9, 2008
Strategy PageLike smallpox (which was wiped out in a similar campaign three decades ago) the polio virus can only survive in human hosts. If enough vulnerable people
Cangene reports results for second quarter of fiscal 2008; net ... - Mar 14, 2008
PharmaLive.com (press release),Three of Cangene's products used to counteract certain complications arising from smallpox vaccination. Biological Laboratories, Inc. (a wholly owned
Tragedy begets in-home nursing service - Mar 24, 2008
Lebanon Daily News,She volunteered to return to Lebanon when a smallpox epidemic hit the city about 1902. She was “placed in charge of the municipal hospital where more than
ALSO NOTED: Minnesota hands out research cash; BMS, Lundbeck execs ... - Mar 6, 2008
FierceBiotech,Report > With a new smallpox vaccine accumulating in federal stockpiles, the US government is disposing of millions of doses of Dryvax, the old smallpox
PANTHER Sensor: Finding Pathogens in a Jiffy - Mar 6, 2008
Gadget Spy,If you have an enemy who’s threatening to you with anthrax, the last culture of smallpox, and the likes, you definitely need this.
Make eradication of TB world's goal - Mar 24, 2008
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,...die every year of a disease that is more than 95 percent curable – a disease that should have been eradicated years ago as was the case with smallpox.
Comments on this Story - Mar 1, 2008
Arizona Daily Star,ATLANTA — The government announced Friday that it has said goodbye to one of the world's greatest lifesavers — the original smallpox vaccine.
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