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Part of Montana's capitol city of Helena was shut down this week following an anthrax scare at the Department of Labor and Industry.

Dr. Thomas Waytes
Emergency responders arrived at Sen. Tom Daschle’s Capitol Hill office on Oct. 15, 2001 suited in personal protective equipment (PPE).

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The FBI has made public thousands of pages of police reports, emails and other files about Bruce Ivins, the alleged culprit of the 2001 anthrax mailings.

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The secretary of a Brooklyn judge opened an envelope on Thursday containing a suspicious white powder, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration has announced.
Human Genome Sciences Inc., which is developing an inhalational anthrax treatment, has announced this week that Chief Financial Officer Timothy Barabe is resigning.
Federal charges are now pending against a Utah prison inmate who is alleged to have sent at least one Salt Lake City government office an anthrax threat in December.

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Georgia's Gilmer County faced an anthrax scare for the second straight day on Wednesday, when an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was found at Gilmer County High School in Ellijay, Georgia.

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Decontamination of the Strafford County, New Hampshire building where a woman was exposed to anthrax spores will cost $70,000, experts have said.

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Work ground to a halt at the offices of the American Psychological Association on Tuesday following the discovery of a letter filled with a white, powdery substance.
A Denver man suspected of mailing white powder to Colorado and Alabama senators and representatives has been arrested by the FBI.

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A new case of anthrax infection has been reported in an injecting heroin user in London, the Health Protection Agency has announced.
The International Agri-Center in Tulare, California was recently visited by government officials in an attempt to raise awareness of the threat, impact and response needs in the face of potential terrorist attacks on the agricultural sector.

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Two villagers in a remote Philippine village have died from suspected anthrax infections and approximately 150 more have been hospitalized.
Fox News has reported on the Obama administration's steering of as much as $150 million in federal funding for an anthrax vaccine to a biodefense firm that holds strong Democratic Party ties.

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Further review is being sought by the United States House of Representatives over the 2001 anthrax mailings that resulted in five deaths that was recently closed by the FBI.

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An anthrax scare at a Kearny Mesa, California business is under investigation by the FBI.

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Researchers at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center in Springfield, Missouri have announced advances in their project to create sensors that can detect anthrax, ricin and E. coli.

David P. Wright
In a move touted as by many experts as questionable at best, PharmAthene has seen millions of dollars added to a 2003 contract without competing for it.

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Aradigm Corporation has announced that is has dosed its first U.S. patient as part of its Once-daily Respiratory Bronchiectasis Inhalation Treatment trial.

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The death toll in Scotland for drug users infected by anthrax through intravenous injections has risen to 10, health officials have said.
A hazmat crew was called to a Trenton police building recently following the discovery of an envelope filled with an unknown white powder.
The investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, the FBI and several other government agencies into the 2001 anthrax attacks in America has officially been closed.

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A recent study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that 89 percent of Americans, in the event of a significant anthrax bioattack, would follow public health recommendations in obtaining antibiotics.

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The main dining room and staff cafeteria at the United Nations in New York was closed on Thursday following the discovery of "a suspicious envelope," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

BioCheck Powder Screening Test Kit
A worldwide distribution agreement has been announced by Smiths Detection with 20/20 BioResponse for its patented BioCheck powder screening test kits
A Cedar Grove, New Jersey bank was the recipient of an envelope containing a suspicious powder this week.
An envelope containing a suspicious white powder was opened today at the Ionia, Mich., County Courthose, prompting the Ionia Public Safety Hazmat team to be called in.

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The New Hampshire woman who contracted a rare form of anthrax two months ago is now able to get up and walk around, health officials have announced, but will remain hospitalized for some time

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The death of a heroin user in Germany from anthrax infected heroin has been positively linked to the Scottish anthrax outbreak that has killed nine heroin users in that country.

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England has seen its first death from anthrax infected heroin and second reported infection, bringing the total deaths from the current outbreak to 11 in the United Kingdom and Germany.
A letter sent to a Salem, Mass. hospital this week contained a small white powder, setting off fears of an anthrax attack within the building.
Immunovaccine Inc. will present positive new research, done in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Canada, that confirms that the number of required doses for an anthrax vaccine candidate can be reduced when formulated in DepoVax.

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Australian health officials have put the nation's drug users on alert about potential deadly batches of anthrax infected heroin, which have already accounted for at least ten deaths and more than 20 infections in Europe.

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An alert has been issued by British health officials following a positive test for an anthrax infection by a heroin user.

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Medizone International, Inc., has reported that in full scale test runs of a hospital room mock up facility, its AsepcticSure system has resulted in the total elimination of all bacteria present.
The state of Michigan, facing the loss of manufacturing jobs, has turned its eye toward the future and begun exploring innovative methods of restoring prosperity to the region.

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The hunt for the source of heroin tainted with anthrax has been widened following the tenth reported death from the infection in Scotland.

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New Hampshire's deputy state epidemiologist has announced that, as of Wednesday, the woman who contracted a rare form of anthrax almost two months ago, despite remaining hospitalized, is now able to answer state health officials' questions.

Bruce Drinkwater
Sonotweezers may soon allow first responders to detect bioterror agents with a tweezer-like device that utilizes ultrasonics.

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In an article written by Edward Epstein in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion section, Epstein has claimed that Bruce Ivins, long thought to be the source of the 2001 American anthrax attacks, was not guilty.

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An eighth heroin user in Scotland has died after becoming infected with anthrax, health officials have confirmed, and another drug user has been confirmed to be infected with the bacteria.

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A fifteenth heroin user has tested positive for an anthrax infection in Scotland, showing that the spread of the disease has not abated.

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At least eight people have died in Europe - seven in Scotland and one in Germany - since the beginning of December stemming from what is believed to be heroin tainted with anthrax.
An Oklahoma State University faculty report has declared that university president Burns Hargis was acting within his authority when he stopped a research project on anthrax vaccines that would have euthanized baboons.

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A second round of samples taken for testing from a Durham, N.H. building were a woman contracted a rare form of anthrax have returned negative for anthrax spores, New Hampshire health officials have revealed.

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Following the deaths of seven heroin users and infections of 14 by anthrax in Scotland, fears have begin to rise in Germany following a fatal case of anthrax in a 24-year-old male injecting drug user.

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Newly uncovered secret files have revealed that the culprits of a 1981 anthrax attack in Scotland were a shadowy group known as the Scottish Civilian Army.

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In a chilling sign that Scotland's anthrax outbreak among heroin users is spreading, a seventh death - the second in Tayside - has been announced by officials.

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The anthrax scare last week in Alabama, which turned out to be harmless household products, aided the state in analyzing its local, regional and state level emergency response procedures, officials have said.

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The anthrax outbreak among intravenous drug users in Scotland has now caused six deaths and infected a total of 12 people, health officials have revealed.

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Health officials in Scotland have revealed that they believe contaminated heroin thought to be responsible for multiple Glasgow anthrax cases may be circulating elsewhere in the nation.

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The condition of the New Hampshire woman who contracted the extremely rare gastrointestinal form of anthrax is improving and she has been moved out of intensive care, a state health official has said.

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A second anthrax scare at Montgomery, Alabama's municipal court building is not, the FBI has said, related to a string of similar letters sent to congressional offices around the state.

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Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology has received a $5.3 million contract to create a vaccine to protect against both anthrax and plague.
Early warning monitoring technology developer Universal Detection Technology has issued an analysis of the recent anthrax scares in government buildings across Alabama.

Gisou van der Goot
An international research scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has, for the first time, identified the cell signaling event that sets anthrax's attack on the human body in motion.

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Anthrax scares were set off in five Alabama cities following the delivery of envelopes containing white powder.

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A strain of anthrax that infected a Strafford County, New Hampshire woman has been found to be the same as one found on two drums used in a drumming circle the woman had attended, state public health officials have announced.
President Barack Obama's December 30 executive order to prepare the nation against biological attacks - specifically anthrax attacks - calls for the development of a federal rapid response involving medical countermeasures to bioattacks

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The number of confirmed anthrax cases in Scotland has jumped to six following another positive test of a heroin user.
An envelope sent to Britain's Communities minister Shahid Malik was found to be filled with a white power and triggered an anthrax scare at the House of Commons.
The anthrax outbreak that hit two of Zimbabwe's districts is now under control, the nation's Veterinary Services Department has announced.

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New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services has begun offering antibiotics and the anthrax vaccine to more than 80 people after an environmental sample at a University of New Hampshire building tested positive for anthrax.

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Doctors have confirmed that a heroin user who died last week was infected with anthrax, bringing the total deaths from infections to three.

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Three samples tested by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human services have now been confirmed as positive for anthrax.
Veterinary officials in Zimbabwe fear that the recent anthrax outbreak is spreading, announcing on Monday that they are testing another suspected case of the disease from a rural growth point approximately 31 miles east of Harare.

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Public health investigators have confirmed that two African drums stored at the University of New Hampshire United Campus Ministry have tested positive for anthrax.

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An anthrax outbreak in Zimbabwe has left one person and 25 cattle dead.

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A New Hampshire woman has come down with the first reported case of anthrax infection in the state since 1957.

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Blood tests carried out on a heroin user in Cumbria, England, have proven negative for anthrax infections so far, health officials have announced.

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A second Glasgow heroin user has died from an anthrax infection, health officials have confirmed.

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The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development AUthority has awarded Pine Brook, N.J.-based Elusys Therapeutics, Inc., a contract for the advanced development of a medication to treat inhalational anthrax.
Almost eight battalions of India's National Disaster Response Force have readied themselves with prophylaxis for anthrax and nerve gas antidotes in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games that will take place in New Delhi.

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A heroin user has been identified as the third case of anthrax infection in Glasgow, Scotland by health officials.

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No new cases of anthrax have arisen several days after two Glasgow heroin users tested positive for anthrax infections, health officials have said.

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Health agencies in Scotland have been placed on alert following news that a drug user who recently died in a hospital tested positive for Anthrax.

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The American Express headquarters at 3 World Financial Center in New York City had to evacuate three floors of the building following an anthrax scare recently.
Universal Detection Technology has responded to the Department of Homeland Security's recent request for research proposals aimed at detecting and containing harmful bioagents used for bioterrorism, including anthrax.
The biopharmaceutical company Elusys Therapeutics, Inc., has announced positive results for its Anthim anthrax anti-toxin program.

Tularemia
Four million dollars in stimulus package funds will be given to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to aid in the development of new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague.

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Medizone International, Inc., has announced that its proprietary AsepticSure technology has continuously broken decontamination barriers in tests, establishing it as an extremely potent sporicidal technology.

Primates for testing
Oklahoma State University has put a stop to a project meant to test anthrax vaccines and treatment on baboons.

MailDefender
The MailDefender might look like a cross between a safe and a washing machine but it could be the missing piece to protecting the public from lethal bio-agents sent through the mail.
A Complete Response Letter has been sent to Human Genome Sciences, Inc., from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about HGS' request for the approval of its treatment for inhalational anthrax.
The delay to Human Genome Sciences' experimental anthrax drug appears inconsistent with published final rules governing the development of new drugs by the FDA, an HGS spokesperson has said.

Raxibacumab
Federal regulators have questioned the effectiveness of Human Genome Sciences, Inc.'s new anthrax treatment raxibacumab.
A Rockville, Maryland based biopharmaceutical company has purchased the East Baltimore bioscience nonprofit MdBio Foundation's 55,000-square-foot BioProcessing Center in East Baltimore.
U.S. health regulators have decline to approve a new experimental treatment for anthrax infection from Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

Michael Johnson
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $4 million federal grant to develop new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague, the university announced Nov. 10.

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NEW YORK — A sixth U.N. mission in New York has received an envelope filled with a suspicious white powder, Reuters reported Nov. 11.

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NEW YORK — Looks like flour was the suspicious powder inside those envelopes sent to several United Nations missions.

W. James Jackson
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced Sept. 30 that it was awarded a cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to further the development of one of its advanced anthrax vaccine candidates.

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The customer service area of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle's central office in Richmond was evacuated briefly Oct. 28 after a suspicious white powder spilled out of an envelope in the agency's basement mailroom.

Nia Griffith
A member of Parliament is demanding reassurances that nothing remains of an anthrax bomb tested in a south Wales estuary during World War II.

Robert Rubin
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute was recently awarded a $4.4 million contract from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

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WASHINGTON — Federal advisers said more data is needed to judge the effectiveness of Human Genome Sciences' anthrax treatment compared with existing anti-bacterial drugs, The Associated Press reported Oct. 27.

Gregg Mosley
Two companies have combined their products and created Mail Safe Check, a diagnostic tool to test incoming mail for pathogens.

Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced proposed guidelines Oct. 27 for protecting emergency responders during an anthrax attack on a major U.S. city.
A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft.
Fighting Michigan’s well-documented economic struggles, industry leaders are looking for innovation that will help jumpstart the econo
A Human Genome Sciences Inc. drug worked better than a placebo but similar to antibiotics for treating anthrax exposure in animal studies, U.S. drug reviewers said in a summary released Oct. 23.
The New Hampshire Department of Human Services asked all health regions to respond to a training scenario where there was a deliberate terrorist release of the biological agent anthrax.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions has launched www.biothrax.com, a website that provides information about BioThrax, its vaccine for the prevention of anthrax infection.

Daniel Abdun-Nabi
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 11, 2009, that it has met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its regulatory strategy for the development of its recombinant anthrax vaccine.

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ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 10, 2009, that its BioThrax anthrax vaccine has been granted a shelf life extension from three to four years by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Daniel J. Abdun-Nabi,
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced May 13, 2009, that it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a development plan for the company’s recombinant protective antigen anthrax vaccine candidate.

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ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced the launch of www.biothrax.com, a website that provides information about BioThrax, the only vaccine licensed by the U.S. FDA for the prevention of anthrax infection.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced Feb. 12, 2009, that it can market and sell BioThrax in India now that the Drugs Controller General of India has issued a registration certificate for the anthrax vaccine.

Fuad El-Hibri
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of all assets and rights related to a recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology from VaxGen Inc.

Fuad El–Hibri
ROCKVILLE, Md., and PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Emergent BioSolutions and Ninebio Sdn. Bhd. announced the formation of a joint venture in Malaysia that will focus on creating critical biologics infrastructure and supplying biodefense countermeasures.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions announced that the Michigan Economic Development Corp. has granted BioPort Corp.’s application for financial incentives associated with a planned investment in a manufacturing facility in Lansing, Mich.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions on Aug. 23, 2005, announced the opening of an office in Munich, Germany, dedicated to the expansion of markets throughout Europe and Asia.

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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has modified its contract and is purchasing an additional 5 million doses of BioThrax.