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Anthrax Diseases - Articles
Anthrax vaccine recipients in Israel developing Crohn's Disease/ Haarretz
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Tue 25 May 2010 5:19pm
developed medical problems.
Well guess what? US recipients of anthrax vaccine also have statistically significant raised rates of Crohn's disease, according to Defense Medical...
From Haaretz
The (Israeli) Defense Ministry has recognized a former soldier who participated in the army's experiments on an anthrax vaccine as a disabled veteran after he
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African Drum Anthrax: 80 advised to take anti-anthrax medicine/ Union-Leader
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Wed 30 Dec 2009 12:00am
exposed to anthrax would do well to use it as extra insurance against the disease. But there are significant safety questions. The GAO (the investigative arm of Congress) reported...
According to Dan Tuohy at the Manchester, New Hampshire Union-Leader,
The state is encouraging more than 80 people to take antibiotics and anthrax vaccine after
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HHS Declares Emergency, Limits Anthrax Vaccine Legal Liability
by
Ginger T.
Posted
Sun 19 Oct 2008 12:27pm
to [anthrax] and the resulting disease constitutes a public health emergency.” The document does not offer additional details on the nature or level of threat.
A request that Health... understand what reasoning HHS used in making that determination, has declared a "public health emergency" citing the high risk of an anthrax attack on the United States
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The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved/ Wall Street Journal
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Mon 25 Jan 2010 12:00am
The Jan. 24 WSJ ran an Op-Ed on the anthrax letters investigation and meaning of 1.4% silicon in the letter anthrax, by Edward Jay Epstein. Subtitled "The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized," excerpts from the article follow:
The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew
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Litigants Argue U.S. Regulators Lacked Basis to OK Anthrax Vaccine
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Thu 13 Aug 2009 8:02pm
regulations three years ago in approving the anthrax vaccine to prevent infection by a "weaponized" form of the disease, attorneys for eight Defense Department employees alleged in a brief filed last week at the U.S. Court of Appeals (see GSN, March 3, 2008).
(Jan. 16) - The anthrax vaccine received approval in late 2005 as a protective measure against
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PLANT vs. PATHOGEN: Enlisting Tobacco in the Fight Against Anthrax
by
Environmental Health
Posted
Wed 31 May 2006 9:00pm
at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), anthrax bacteria that don’t have PA cannot cause an infection. “In essence,” he says, “they are inactivated and become... will lead to an anthrax vaccine someday in the future. His team is also working on growing vaccine antigens against other diseases such as cholera, amebiasis, plague, and hepatitis C
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Army releases some e-mails from anthrax suspect/Frederick News-Post
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Thu 13 Aug 2009 8:02pm
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases microbiologist, its sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five and hospitalized 17 others.
Ivins died... of anthrax researchers in Annapolis for the summer of 2001; discussions of lab research; and in two cases, copies of The New York Times articles about the investigation into the 2001
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Additional details emerge to challenge the FBI's anthrax letter scenario
by
Meryl Nass
Posted
Wed 24 Feb 2010 12:00am
conclusion of which is that Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, in Maryland, was the anthrax mailer.
“Note...
Today's NY Times carries an article by Richard Bernstein, "Haste Leaves Anthrax Case Unconcluded." Edited only slightly for brevity, the article follows
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