Smallpox News
 

Smallpox vaccine: neurologic adverse events generally mild  - Xagena.it -
Italy - Adverse neurologic reactions from smallpox vaccination were generally mild
and the rate of specific syndromes did not exceed baseline estimates.

US FDA approves Cangene's first biodefense product - PharmaLive.com
(press release) - Newtown,PA,USA ... and Drug Administration (FDA) has
approved Cangene's Vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) for use in counteracting
certain adverse reactions to smallpox vaccination.

NEARLY 2 MILLION Americans could die - in a flu pandemic, which many
scientists say is not just inevitable but long overdue.

U.N. warns - deadly bird flu strain has more chance to mutate with each new case.

Infection Control Today - Serious Adverse Reactions to Smallpox
Vaccine Appear to Be Limited

Acambis delivers vaccine doses - LONDON (SHARECAST) - Acambis today said
it has delivered 500,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the US government. The
doses were ...

A Pill for Smallpox - A new drug may someday treat smallpox, according to a
report presented at the15th International Conference on Antiviral Research in Prague.

Terror Threat May Force Russia to Resume Smallpox Vaccination -
NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

Businesses make bird flu plans; airlines could take new hit - Nov. 1, 2005

Local Tech Wire- AlphaVax Receives $3.3M Grant for Smallpox Vaccine.

Doctors Don't Recognize Botulism or Smallpox- September 26, 2005 -- cited
from Forbes.com -- American doctors aren't prepared to diagnose and treat
diseases likely to be unleashed by bioterrorists, including anthrax, botulism, plague
or smallpox, a new ...

US seeks stockpile of safer smallpox vaccine- August 16, 2005 -- cited
from CIDRAP US seeks stockpile of safer small pox vaccine.

White House Government- President Delivers News On SmallPox --
April 2005. -President Bush delivers news from the White House on Small Pox and
the need for vaccination stating -- "We do recommend vaccinations for one other
group of Americans that could be on the front lines of a biological attack. We will
make the vaccine available on a voluntary basis to medical professionals
and emergency personnel and response teams that would be the first on the scene
in a smallpox emergency.

Avian Flu Planning Like Smallpox -- - York Daily Record- In this article it
notes ... Smallpox spreads through casual contact -- So does Avian flu.
Smallpox spreads through respiratory droplets, so can avian flu, and defines....
What is a pandemic?
A pandemic is a global outbreak of a disease that occurs when a new virus appears
in the human population, causes serious illness and then spreads from
person-to-person. Seasonal outbreaks or epidemics of influenza are different; they
are subtypes of the virus that already circulate among people.

Viruses -- not man -- at top of food chain  - United Press International - USA
Eccles said. "So there's not going to be a cure, as there would be a cure for smallpox
or perhaps even for AIDS," he said. Mankind.

 University of Maryland Bio Facility to Assist BioFactura - Yahoo! News
(press release) - USA
BioFactura Inc. is developing a therapy for smallpox using the University of
Maryland's Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility.

Vaccines may be diluted 100-fold - ABC Online - Australia -
The study shows that when the immune system booster is added at low doses
to vaccines and injected into mice exposed to rabies, measles and smallpox,
an immune.

Vaccine for deadly poison ricin developed  - TODAYonline - Singapore -
Ricin, a deadly biochemical toxin that experts worry might be used in terrorist
attacks, could be neutralized by a newly developed experimental vaccine, US.

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