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The Armageddon virus: Why experts fear a disease that leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years

(Mail Online) The symptoms appear suddenly with a headache, high fever, joint pain, stomach pain and vomiting. As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of bruising and uncontrolled bleeding. In at least 30  per cent of cases, Crimean-Congo Viral Hemorrhagic Fever is fatal. And so it proved this month when a 38-year-old garage owner  Read More »

Plum Island lab ‘is here to protect the nation’

(The Day) Just off the southeast shore of Plum Island last week, a dozen or so harbor seals perched in poses mimicking phases of the moon on sea-weathered rocks, while others poked heads out of the dark waters, all turning toward the low, sandy cliff along the beach to a small group gathered on the  Read More »

U.S. Security Mandates Seen as Burden to Lab Preparedness

(Global Security Newswire) U.S. medical laboratories might opt out of the nation’s select agents program to avoid the burden of new security mandates, a possibility that could result in a loss of key capacities for handling a deliberate or natural pathogen outbreaks, an organization representing such sites indicated in a report last Wednesday by the  Read More »

The Man Who Tracks Viruses Before They Spread

(WFSU) The New Yorker once called virologist Nathan Wolfe “the world’s most prominent virus hunter.” Wolfe, the director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, spends his days tracking emerging infectious diseases before they turn into deadly pandemics. In The Viral Storm, Wolfe describes how most of those emerging infectious diseases originally start out in animals  Read More »

Activists warn over synthetic biology

(Deccan Chronicle) In genetic engineering, a gene or two are manipulated. What if scientists indulge in digital writing of genetic code and tinker with plants and animals? Environment activists warn that synthetic biology or extreme genetic engineering is a fast emerging threat to biodiversity, as it will change the genetic make-up of species concerned. Extreme  Read More »

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