Fort Detrick and U.S. Army To Make Pneumonic Plague Vaccine with Britain and Canada by 2015!

We are certainly hearing our fair share of pneumonic plague news in the last few days. There is the on-going story in Ukraine. There are pneumonic plague drills happening in Canada and in Illinois. The lungs of people who died in Iowa resembled the lungs of plague victims! Even a cat has tested positive for plague in California.

Now, the news comes out that there will be a plague vaccine by 2015 brought to you by Fort Detrick, the U.S. Army, Britain and Canada.

In 2000, the United States began working with Britain and Canada to share information about the plague vaccine. In 2005, the three countries agreed to pool their resources to create a vaccine to be mass-produced, though they were still considering working with the British formula. In the latest agreement, the three countries agreed to use USAMRIID's fusion protein as the basis of the vaccine...

Though the formula is unlikely to change, aside from tinkering to find the best human dosage, Worsham said it can only help to have three countries' scientists collaborating on vaccine production...

The Army hopes to have the vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by 2015. Already completed early human clinical trials indicate the vaccine is safe and does provide immunity to the plague bacteria, called Yersinia pestis.

Source: FrederickNewsPost.com