SRA Awarded $25 Million Contract by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Company Providing Laboratory Support Services for Select Agent Program FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. , a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, today announced it has won a contract with the Centers for...

FERX AND JAPAN'S NCCRI COLLABORATE ON GENE THERAPY.
FeRx Inc., San Diego, and the National Cancer Center Research Institute (NCCRI) of Japan have established a research collaboration designed to develop a novel tumor-targeting gene transfer approach utilizing FeRx's proprietary Magnetic Targeted Carrier (MTC) drug delivery technology. The research collaboration will be directed by Dr. Takahiro...

Biological terrorism: legal measures for preventing catastrophe.
Biological terrorism is a truly despicable subject, raising nightmares of primal fear. Disease -- plague, smallpox, and other decimating maladies -- is dire trauma embedded in humanity's collective consciousness. Now, when the threat of thermonuclear holocaust may be ebbing, a few zealots or criminals can kill thousands (or more)...

VPC shows its backbone: industry experts gather in San Diego for the 23rd Vertebrate Pest Conference to share the latest on wildlife issues, disease studies and removal & elimination techniques.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 23rd Vertebrate Pest Conference (VPC) was held March 17-20 at the Westin Emerald Plaza in San Diego. This conference has been held every two years since 1962, and typically alternates among various West Coast locations. This year's event attracted 273, representing 39 states, the...

A survey of selected avian pathogens of backyard poultry in northwestern Ecuador.
Abstract: As part of a larger ecologic research project and to collect disease prevalence information on backyard chicken flocks in northwestern Ecuador, 100 randomly selected birds from 10 flocks were examined, and blood, fecal, and ectoparasite samples were collected. The owners of the flocks were surveyed regarding flock management...

Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases: a review.
Ticks are important because they can function as vectors of diseases that affect humans, livestock and wildlife (1). As Lyme disease has proliferated in recent years, concern about tick-borne diseases has also increased. In the United States, there are 12 species of ticks (seven kinds of hard ticks and five...

Why diseases spread.
Every year, cases of the cold and flu seem to spread widely across the U.S. During the 1940s and 1950s, for example, polio was a national epidemic. Just how do diseases spread so rapidly? According to Stan Silberg, an epidemiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences...

Possible meteorological influence on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) community outbreak at Amoy Gardens, Hong Kong.
Introduction Environmental and meteorological factors are known to affect the transport, survival, and growth of many disease-causing agents (Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, 2001; World Health Organization, 2004). In the case of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, Tan and co-authors (2005) found...

The ordinariness of AIDS: can a disease that tells us so much about ourselves ever be anything but extraordinary?
The AIDS epidemic is now 25 years old. Early in the epidemic Susan Sontag forecast a day when AIDS--"the disease most fraught with meaning," she called it--would become an ordinary illness. But can AIDS be ordinary? Something like ordinariness has happened to cancer, and perhaps that is...

Chronic wasting disease of deer and elk: a call for national management.
I. INTRODUCTION II. A PRIMER ON CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE A. Prion Diseases: What Are They? B. History and Distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease C. Diagnoses and Treatment D. Implications for Wildlife Managers III. ALTERNATIVE LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS A. Game Ranching and Farming in North America B. Management of Game Ranches...