Word: tularemia
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...Chuck” Turner ’62 said at the meeting that he lacked confidence in BU’s safety procedures. Turner referred to a 2004 incident in which three BU researchers fell ill after unknowingly handling a contaminated strain of the bacteria tularemia...
...protection because in addition to neutralizing toxins, it can stop bacteria from multiplying at the early stages of disease, according to Michèle Mock, team leader on the Institute's anthrax vaccine project. The current anthrax vaccine only neutralizes toxins. The same is true for a vaccine against tularemia, or rabbit fever, a bacterium that can cause fatal illness. With funding from the U.S. government, the University of Ume? in Sweden is trying to identify protective components of the tularemia bacterium and use them to develop a vaccine. And in Germany, scientists are developing a vaccine against botulism toxin...
...only drug approved for biological attacks--specifically for inhaled anthrax--although it's never been directly tested in humans. Doxycycline and penicillin may help as well, if given over a long term. Streptomycin or gentamicin are preferred for plague, but tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones also do the trick. For tularemia, doxycycline and ciprofloxacin are the antibiotics of choice. Prompt treatment is essential...
...work deep in Africa, DeVore met his match in Martha's Vineyard. USA. On a trip there in 1984, he contracted tularemia, an extremely rare disease found in ticks and rabbits, and Lyme disease...
...troops will also filter out most airborne germs. Yet there is no easy way to know immediately when such elements are present. All front-line combat troops have been inoculated against anthrax, which is considered Iraq's most likely germ choice, but not against many other potential diseases like tularemia and plague...