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HHS Declares Emergency, Limits Anthrax Vaccine Legal Liability by Ginger T. Patient Expert countermeasures” are “based on a credible risk that the threat of exposure to [anthrax] and the resulting disease... a "public health emergency" citing the high risk of an anthrax attack on the United States. This "emergency...
Improved Bacterial Host for Production of Anthrax Toxin Proteins and Vaccines: Bacillus anthracis BH450 by nih.gov Description of Invention: Anthrax toxin has previously been made from various avirulent... that laboratories growing the strain will not become contaminated with the very stable anthrax spores. Inability...
African Drum Anthrax: 80 advised to take anti-anthrax medicine/ Union-Leader by Meryl Nass who might have been exposed to anthrax would do well to use it as extra insurance against the disease... more than 80 people to take antibiotics and anthrax vaccine after an environmental sample at the United Campus...
Anthrax Investigation: Silicon Mystery Endures in Solved Anthrax Case/ Science by Meryl Nass In 1993 the US Government knew that silicon was used to enhance dispersal of powdered microbial agents and toxins.  OTA produced some very useful research, but the agency no longer exists. U.S. Congress, Office of Techno
Anthrax vaccine recipients in Israel developing Crohn's Disease/ Haarretz by Meryl Nass in the army's experiments on an anthrax vaccine as a disabled veteran after he developed Crohn's disease. For two years, it denied similar recognition to another veteran who has the same disease, which causes...
Anthrax poses new threat in cholera-hit Zimbabwe: charity (Agence France Presse) by Meryl Nass the deadlier (inhalation) form of the disease, anthrax is a terrible problem. Forming a spore... If you drop anthrax spores in areas where livestock graze or wild animals roam, anthrax's bitter...
The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved/ Wall Street Journal by Meryl Nass 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...
CDC's anthrax vaccine safety studies defunded/ Science online by Meryl Nass from Science: Michael McNeil's portfolio of flawed anthrax vaccine safety studies at CDC is going... purported to show no increase in cases of optic neuropathy following anthrax vaccine, by using idiosyncratic...
Litigants Argue U.S. Regulators Lacked Basis to OK Anthrax Vaccine by Meryl Nass in approving the anthrax vaccine to prevent infection by a "weaponized" form of the disease, attorneys... GSN, March 3, 2008). (Jan. 16) - The anthrax vaccine received approval in late 2005 as a protective...

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Anthrax and HIV
1)My first question is are there correlations between HIV and Anthrax disease in regards... to the Orasure antibody test for HIV disease.) Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C. Anthrax and HIV 1. NO2... for Anthrax infection? (For example, maybe you have antibodys to anthrax to be diagnosed with inhalation...crap

Crohn's Disease Military
In 2003 I was given a battery of test after reacting to my seventh anthrax shot. During the course of the testing I presented with sleep disorders, joint pain, memory loss, open sores in my mucus...'s which I ate on a regular basis while deployed to SWA in 2001 and Crohn's Disease.   Is there any truth...crap

Anthrax VS. HIV
Dr Markwhen a person is exposed and contracts Anthraxand then tests what does the test look for ? Antibodies or Anthrax ?Seems The CDC is saying symptoms are flu like and has a incubation period....I.C. Anthrax VS. HIV In patients who are exposed and/or ill the tests performed are looking for the organism...crap

The HIV-AIDS Debate Is Over
that must be fulfilled before it can be concluded that a particular bacterial agent causes a particular disease. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the anthrax bacillus, first posited his three postulates in the late nineteenth.... For more than a century Koch's postulates have served as the litmus test for determining the cause of any epidemic disease...crap

what is ciprofloxacin for?
ciprofloxacin is a drug which is used to treat different types of bacterial infections. It may also be used to prevent or slow anthrax after exposure. namicrap

Bioterror
that envelope at American Media or Daschle's office. Are PWLA's at more risk for Anthrax or other potential... Feinberg, M.D. Bioterror Anthrax is a rare illness, so there are no specific data about anthrax occurring... is to stay calm and not lose any sleep over the possibility of getting anthrax....crap

I'd like to believe my 3 month negative, BUT...
infallible. Recent news with regards to Anthrax revealed that the labs the CDC uses are not up to date...crap

ENZYMES LIKE LYSIN FOR HIV INFECTION
Hi Doctors, I recently read over a report on how the enzyme lysin I believe was tested in laboratories successfully against anthrax spores and other bacterias. My question is, are there enzymes... is very specific for certain bacterial cell walls (like that found in Bacillus anthracis- anthrax). -BY...crap

UNDERWEAR as a barrier
The recent experience of anthrax transmissionthrough the microscopic holes in the paper of the envelope.... That is why "natural" condons, which are made out of animal tissues, are not recommended for disease prevention...crap

Random chest pain, hurts when breath deeply/laugh. Has occured 2 x past month, lasts over a week
Stopped smoking due to random chest pain that mainly hurts when I take deep breaths or laugh or move my right arm too much or too quickly.  It began after an anthrax vaccination a month ago and I haven't really noticed it since I deployed, but now, just today, the pain has returned and it hurts even...crap