Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has plans to acquire another medication that is stockpiled by the federal government for emergencies, and to begin making it in Baltimore in 2020. The Gaithersburg-based company on Thursday announced it would buy raxibacumab, which is used to ...

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WASHINGTON — Army Secretary John McHugh has suspended operations at four Defense Department laboratories that handle biological toxins, as the military scrambles to explain and correct problems that led to the accidental shipment of live anthrax to dozens of other ...

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The Army’s Edgewood Proving Ground in Maryland  was one of nine government or commercial labs that received suspect anthrax samples, officials said. Human error probably was not a factor in the Army’s mistaken shipment of the live anthrax samples, the Army’s top ...

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PharmAthene Inc., an Annapolis-based company that develops biodefense products, reported that its SparVax anthrax vaccine performed as well as the currently licensed anthrax vaccine, BioThrax, in a trial using rabbits. SparVax “provided equivalent protection against lethal aerosol anthrax challenge at ...

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PharmAthene Inc., of Annapolis, a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced that it has been notified by the Food and Drug Administration that its SparVax next-generation anthrax vaccine program has been placed on clinical hold.

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LANSING, Mich. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is planning to open a new Michigan facility to expand production of its BioThrax anthrax vaccine to protect U.S military personnel against a leading biological weapons threat. The Rockville, Md.-based company said it could ...

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MIAMI — More than a decade after tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the U.S. government has agreed to pay his widow and family $2.5 million to settle their lawsuit, according to ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Three scientists say they’re preparing a research paper questioning the government’s conclusion that an Army microbiologist at Fort Detrick in Frederick was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Louisiana State University epidemiologist Martin Hugh-Jones said Monday ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A court-ordered panel of experts said Wednesday that security investigators failed to follow up on signs of mental illness that should have prevented the apparent perpetrator of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks from working with anthrax at the ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, a panel of scientists said Tuesday after an 18-month review. However, the panel ...

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