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Human trials begin for Army-developed Zika vaccine

Article
11/15/2016
The Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito – Aedes aegypti, shown here, and Aedes albopictus. The same mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya viruses. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on a person already infected with the virus. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other people through bites. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo by James Gathany)

A Zika vaccine clinical trial began recently at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research officials announced

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Zika Virus, Immunization Healthcare, Medical Research and Development

Army researchers, Sanofi Pasteur to co-develop Zika virus vaccine

Article
7/13/2016
A digitally-colorized transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus, which is a member of the family Flaviviridae. Virus particles, here colored blue, are 40 nanometers in diameter with an outer envelope and an inner dense core.

A recently signed cooperative research and development agreement will allow the transfer of the Zika purified inactivated virus, or ZPIV, technology to Sanofi to explore advanced and larger-scale manufacturing and production

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Research and Innovation, Pandemic Diseases, Immunization Healthcare, Mosquito-Borne Illnesses, Zika Virus, Public Health

Walter Reed scientists test Zika vaccine candidate

Article
6/10/2016
This photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species of mosquito primarily responsible for the spread of the Zika virus disease to people.

As mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus spread illness to people across the Americas and beyond, scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are moving quickly

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Zika Virus, Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

DoD adds funding to enhance Zika surveillance by military labs

Article
5/18/2016
This photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species of mosquito primarily responsible for the spread of the Zika virus disease to people.

The Defense Department is providing $1.76 million in extra funding to military laboratories to expand Zika virus surveillance worldwide

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Pandemic Diseases, Public Health, Medical Research and Development, Zika Virus, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

On DoD Radar: First clinical trial of MERS vaccine candidate

Article
3/3/2016
Transmission electron micrograph of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease photo)

Army scientists have started vaccinations in the first clinical trial to test the safety and immune response in people of a vaccine candidate to prevent MERS

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Immunizations, Immunization Healthcare, Immunization Healthcare, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Army scientists begin first MERS vaccine clinical trial

Article
2/22/2016
This image shows Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus particle envelope proteins immunolabeled with rabbit HCoV-EMC/2012 primary antibody and goat anti-rabbit 10-nanometer gold particles. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease photo)

A MERS vaccine would be an important medical countermeasure for U.S. troops in the Middle East and wherever the virus might arise

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Immunization Healthcare, Pandemic Diseases, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Immunization Healthcare, Immunizations

Defense Department experts to support HHS with Zika virus research

Article
2/4/2016
President Barack Obama convenes a meeting on the Zika virus in the Situation Room of the White House, Jan. 26, 2016.

DoD experts with experience working with the Zika virus will support the HHS in its efforts related to the mosquito-borne disease

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Zika Virus

Rise of the bugs, and the DoD Biosurveillance Enterprise

Article
2/2/2016
String-like Ebola virus particles shed from an infected cell are seen here in this electron micrograph. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases photo)

Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, part of the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, keeps a watch for emerging infectious diseases

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Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Pandemic Diseases, Ebola, Public Health

DoD Helps Protect Beneficiaries from Deceptive Pharmacy Practices

Article
5/14/2015
A pharmacy technician counts pills to fill a prescription at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., May 22, 2012. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alystria Maurer

In the face of recent aggressive and deceptive marketing practices of some compounding pharmacies targeting TRICARE, the Defense Health Agency is taking aggressive action to help TRICARE beneficiaries, DHA’s chief of pharmacy operations said in a recent interview.

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TRICARE Pharmacy Program, Compound Drugs

DoD Scientists Work Globally to Improve Disease Diagnostics

Article
12/22/2014
Aaron Momolu, left, and Lawrence Fakoli, Liberian laboratory technicians at National Public Health Reference Laboratory, put on personal protective equipment before entering a containment area to test samples. U.S. Army photo by Dr. Randal J. Schoepp:

At the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases here, scientists who develop and refine diagnostics do more than work in a laboratory. Some take their disease-identifying tools into the field and try them out on a virus’s home turf.

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Pandemic Diseases

DTRA Medical Countermeasures Help West African Ebola Crisis

Article
12/12/2014
Since 2003, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency has invested more than $300 million to develop medical countermeasures against hemorrhagic fever viruses, and those efforts are paying off today in potential new ways to fight Ebola virus disease. National Institutes of Health photo

Since 2003, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency has invested more than $300 million to develop medical countermeasures against hemorrhagic fever viruses, and those efforts are paying off today in potential new ways to fight Ebola virus disease.

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Pandemic Diseases, Ebola

DoD Threat Reduction Agency Builds Anti-Ebola Capacity

Article
12/8/2014
microscopic view of the ebola virus

The Defense Department agency whose mission is to reduce biological, chemical and other threats to troops worldwide began ramping up its response early in the Ebola outbreak and now, with many partners, is steadily building capabilities in Liberia as it extends capacity into Sierra Leone and Mali.

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Pandemic Diseases, Ebola, Health Readiness
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