• Quarantined communities must know where they will get medical care, antibiotics and vaccines, clean water, food, and mortuary service if the need arises. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The emergency declarations cover a host of antibiotics to fight anthrax infection, anthrax and smallpox vaccines, and a drug to stimulate white blood cell production in people harmed by radiation. (blogspot.com)
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  • Vaccination of humans with anthrax vaccine adsorbed induces an immune response to PA. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Chad from 2000 through 2005, we demonstrated the feasibility of combining vaccination programs for nomadic pastoralists and their livestock. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the 4 strategies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to achieve their vision of equitable, sustainable, and high-coverage immunization among children and women by the year 2015 is the provision of vaccination services linked to other health interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • 50% ( 7 ) and a large disparity between urban and rural vaccination coverage (20% vs. 9% for fully immunized children in 1997 [ 9 ]), Chadian public health professionals expressed their need for strategies to better reach the remote pastoral communities in the border regions to establish a "cordon sanitaire. (cdc.gov)
  • Anthrax vaccine adsorbed is classified as a subunit vaccine that is cell-free and containing no whole or live anthrax bacteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anthrax bacteria can survive in the environment by forming spores. (who.int)
  • As with the Sterne (veterinary) anthrax vaccine strain and the similar British anthrax vaccine (known as AVP), anthrax vaccine adsorbed lacks the capsule plasmid pXO2 (required for full virulence) and is composed chiefly of the anthrax protective antigen (PA) with small amounts of edema factor (EF) and lethal factor (LF) that may vary from lot to lot. (wikipedia.org)
  • Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • There were 23 cases among controls (5 of them inhalation anthrax) compared with 3 cases among vaccinated (0 inhalation cases). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Vollum strain was the same one weaponized by the old U.S. biological warfare program. (wikipedia.org)
  • CounterPunch commented a month later on geographic connections that bore directly on the case: "The South African media [have] been abuzz with details of that nation's former biological warfare program and its links to the CIA. (blogspot.com)
  • The vaccine efficacy of anthrax vaccine adsorbed in humans was initially established by Philip S. Brachman of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in a controlled study undertaken between 1954 and 1959. (wikipedia.org)
  • Subsequently, there were no controlled clinical trials in humans of the efficacy of anthrax vaccine adsorbed due to the rarity of the condition (especially in the inhalational form) in humans and the ethical inadmissibility of conducting dangerous challenge studies in human subjects. (wikipedia.org)
  • their medicinal and health benefits for humans and their domestic as well as companion animals along with their fruitful practical applications and perspectives like bioreactor for producing vaccine along with the methods that can increase their nutritional benefits. (scialert.net)
  • Stan Bedlington, a veteran CIA agent, told the Washington Post that he'd known Hatfill for several years: "They were drinking buddies who'd both been involved in anti-terrorism efforts long before the World Trade Center crumbled. (blogspot.com)
  • The most likely routes of exposure are handling infected animal products (usually imported from regions in which anthrax is common), inhaling spores from contaminated animal products or eating undercooked meat from an infected animal. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • In short, unless you work in a setting where exposure is likely (e.g., tanner, lab personnel working with anthrax, military, etc.), your risk for this disease is probably very, very low. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • For children and for women of childbearing age, immunization provided through the National Expanded Program on Immunization is considered one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and society's best healthcare investment, especially in developing countries ( 5 , 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt established legal immunity for public and private officials who oversee the production or distribution of the anthrax vaccine by declaring a "public health emergency" due to the risk of a bioterrorism attack. (blogspot.com)
  • The product has attracted some controversy owing to alleged adverse events and questions as to whether it is effective against the inhalational form of anthrax. (wikipedia.org)
  • Laurie Mylroie explained to CNN, "it takes a highly sophisticated agency to produce anthrax in the lethal form. (blogspot.com)
  • In the US, the principal purchasers of the vaccine are the Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services. (wikipedia.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The U.S. Health and Human Services Department early this month moved to shield government, industry and business officials from lawsuits filed by those who have received the anthrax vaccine (see GSN, Sept. 5, 2007). (blogspot.com)
  • The shelf-life of anthrax vaccine adsorbed is reported to be three years when stored between 2 °C and 8 °C (36 °F and 46 °F) and never frozen. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the anthrax mailings two years later brought death and high anxiety. (blogspot.com)
  • Mind you it has been 7 years since the anthrax attack on this country, which the government believes came from one of its own researchers, but NOW we are declaring an emergency. (blogspot.com)
  • These studies must be conducted with the goal of ultimately involving active participation of communities well before any event occurs. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Approval of the vaccine was based on a placebo-controlled study in mill workers (PDF) and a couple studies conducted by the CDC. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • The South African bio-chemical war program was code-named Project Coast and was centered at the Roodeplat Research Laboratories north of Pretoria. (blogspot.com)
  • Part of that preparation should involve research and development on needed tools and approaches. (nationalacademies.org)
  • I have seen nothing in the media that the US has evidence of a credible anthrax threat. (blogspot.com)
  • But zero people are coming down with anthrax, and an emergency is declared and no explanation is given as to why. (blogspot.com)
  • anthrax is an emergency just because one day it might, maybe, eventually be an emergency. (blogspot.com)
  • A setback for the global polio eradication program was direct and indirect spread of wild polio virus type 1 from Nigeria to 11 African countries from 2002 through 2004. (cdc.gov)
  • One of those people was comedian Rob Schneider , who has recently come out as a vocal critic of California bill AB 2109 , which would require parents to get informed about vaccines before they could get a personal belief exemption. (harpocratesspeaks.com)