- Hello, Jeff - Among the deadly pathogens
being worked with now across Texas are filoviruses (Marburg, Ebola), Rift
Valley Fever another hemorrhagic, Nipah and other viruses mentioned in
the following website:
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- http://research.utmb.edu/CTD/wrce/index.shtm
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- Dr. Doom is advocating the use of Ebola
which, as you can see, is readily available in some of the University of
Texas labs.
- Is he simply talking, or...
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- Patty
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- Excerpt from
- http://www.sfbr.org/pages/news_release_detail.php?id=40
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- The primary research focus of the eight
new RCEs will be agents the government has determined to be bioterror threats,
often described as "select agents. Examples include anthrax, bubonic
plague, Ebola, tularensis, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. The program, however,
also addresses emerging infectious diseases such as dengue fever, mokeypox
and SARS.
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- Exerpt
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- BSL-4 labs, also described as maximum
containment laboratories, are specially equipped for the safe study of
dangerous and infectious pathogens for which there is no known treatment
or vaccine. Having such a state-of-the-art facility has allowed SFBR virologists
to study select agents such as Ebola and Lassa fever since the lab "went
hot in 2000.
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- Already SFBR,s progress in biodefense
has proven noteworthy. Just last summer, it joined the University of Texas
at Austin in announcing success with an antibody that saved lab rats from
anthrax toxin, which is what kills patients with late-stage anthrax infection.
Funds from the RCE will support similar existing research programs at the
Foundation and allow their further expansion.
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- Another key collaborator in the RCE is
SFBR,s Southwest National Primate Research Center, which will provide animals,
facilities and expertise to researchers developing vaccines and therapies
to treat infections with select agents. The primate center,s distinguished
history in the humane and appropriate use of nonhuman primates in biomedical
research becomes especially important in light of the FDA,s "two animal
rule.
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- Patty
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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