BiodefenseEducation.orgis a Biodefense Digital Library and Collaboratory, curated from open source intelligence by Donna M. D'Alessandro M.D. and Michael P. D'Alessandro M.D., and intended to serve as a source of continuing education on biodefense affairs.Anthrax - Kiwis helping US fight bioterror- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Stuff.co.nz - Kiwi scientists are developing a new treatment for anthrax.http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3508376a11,00.html Disease Surveillance - CDC selects vendor for national biosurveillance program- (Found July 8, 2008 ) GCN - The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a pair of contracts totaling $68.4 million to Science Applications International Corp. to help implement and support CDCs BioSense national syndromic surveillance program.http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37728-1.html Smallpox - Monkeypox often affects lymph nodes- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Reuters Clinical Infectious Diseases - About three quarters of patients with monkeypox have affected lymph nodes, a condition that is rare in cases of smallpox or chicken pox, investigators report in two articles in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Other common features of monkeypox, in addition to rash and fever, include chills, sore throat, headache and muscle pain. Considered a possible agent of bioterrorism, it is important to recognize signs and symptoms of monkeypox and to...http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-12-07T2259... Public Health - Wall Street Journal Examines NIH Funding for Anti-Bioterrorism Medications, Vaccines- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Wall Street Journal - The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined the role Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has played since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to direct funding to drug companies to produce biodefense medicines.http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=34151 Public Health - US unprepared for health disaster- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Reuters - Hospitals are not prepared to handle the patients who would arrive after a disaster or a pandemic, most states have few plans in place for coping, and the federal government has not taken charge of such preparation, according to a report released by Trust for America's Health. CIDRAP: Public health preparedness still lagging, group says.http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=uri:2005-12... Smallpox - Mixed Report on Smallpox Inoculations- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Washington Post - The voluntary smallpox vaccination campaign announced by President Bush three years ago did not produce the plethora of side effects many in the medical community feared, an analysis released yesterday found. But it remains a mystery why a few dozen adults who were inoculated suffered severe, and in some cases fatal, heart complications.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120601595.html Anthrax - Teacher says no one asked him about threat of anthrax slide- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Associated Press - When an anthrax slide broke in an eighth grade science class two weeks ago, school officials locked down Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Junior-Senior High School for four hours, with no explanation to terrified pupils, teachers or parents.http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/12/05/teacher_says_no_one_ask... Smallpox - Serious Adverse Reactions to Smallpox Vaccine Appear to Be Limited- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Infection Control Today Journal of the American Medical Association - There was a low rate of life-threatening adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine administered to potential first responders to a bioterrorism incident, possibly attributable to rigorous vaccine safety screening and educational programs, according to a study to be published in the Dec. 7, 2005 issue of JAMA.http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/hotnews/5ch51025338939.html Agroterrorism - Tightening up on bioterror- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The Australian - The US Food Marketing Institute has partnered with an Australian technology company to help its members meet tough requirements of the US's Bioterrorism Act.http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17467271%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html Smallpox - Study shows few serious problems among smallpox vaccinees- (Found July 8, 2008 ) CIDRAP Journal of the American Medical Association - Exactly 100 of about 38,000 civilians who received smallpox shots in a federal program in 2003 suffered serious adverse events afterward, signaling that the program successfully screened out most people at risk for complications.http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/smallpox/news/dec1405smallpox.html |