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DHS Releases Guide on Guarding Emergency Crews From Anthrax

(Global Security Newswire) Ensuring the safety of emergency response personnel in the seven days after a release of anthrax into the air of a major urban area is the focus of a paper published last month by the U.S. Homeland Security Department, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Thursday. The document  Read More »

HHS seeks comments on risks of H5N1 research

(CIDRAP) Federal health officials are inviting the public to weigh in on whether research on H5N1 avian influenza viruses, including strains modified in the lab to make them more transmissible, is risky enough to require new safety regulations and precautions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to know if people think H5N1  Read More »

Biodiversity Is Key In The Road Map To Food Security With No Role For GM Crops

(Counter Currents) There has been much talk around biological diversity and biosafety in the country as India was host to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (COP-11) and the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena  Read More »

Plant-Based Ebola Drug Tests Well on Monkeys

(Global Security Newswire) An experimental Ebola drug has demonstrated the ability in laboratory testing to protect monkeys exposed to the lethal fast-acting hemorrhagic fever virus, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases announced in a Monday press release. None of the rhesus macaques who received the mixture of monoclonal antibodies known as mAbs  Read More »

Crows don’t digest prions, may transport them to other locations

(EurekAlert) Crows fed on prion-infected brains from mice can transmit these infectious agents in their feces and may play a role in the geographic spread of diseases caused by prions, such as chronic wasting disease or scrapie. The new research published Oct. 17 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Kurt VerCauteren from the  Read More »

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