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By Region: North America

Industry meets government to discuss foot and mouth disease risk

(ABC) The Sheepmeat Council says an Australian outbreak of foot and mouth disease is inevitable and it wants producers to be vigilant. Government and livestock industry representatives yesterday met in Canberra to discuss Australia’s readiness to deal with FMD. The Sheepmeat Council says it’s encouraging that those groups all see eye-to-eye on what needs to be done.

U.S. Infectious Disease Chief Urges Flu Scientists to ‘Engage,’ Support H5N1 Research Moratorium

(Science Insider) A voluntary moratorium on potentially dangerous experiments aimed at understanding highly virulent strains of the H5N1 influenza virus should continue for the time being, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci told a meeting of flu scientists here. But, he added, scientists should redouble their efforts to engage with the  Read More »

A Bird Flu Spreads in Seals. Could Humans Be Next?

(Time) Last fall, 162 harbor seal pups mysteriously washed up dead on the shores of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Puzzled, scientists conducted autopsies on five of the animals, which suggested that a respiratory infection had killed them. Samples of the seals’ tissue were then analyzed further and a common virus was discovered: a new strain of influenza that appeared to have  Read More »

STEC Derived HUS: Infection of Toxemia?

(Food Safety News) For some time now, the worldwide food supply has been under attack by a bacterium we know well as a generally non-trouble-making resident of the human colon (Escherichia coli), which has lately been possessed of a terrible “new” weapon in the form of Shiga toxin. We call this beast “Shiga toxin-producing E.  Read More »

Flu researchers bristle under federal policy

(Nature) It has been four months since the US government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose significant risks to the public if misapplied. At a meeting in New York on Monday, representatives of leading institutions that perform such research discussed their experiences  Read More »

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