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Pharma companies share $400m US biosecurity contract

(InPharm) GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Emergent BioSolutions will share a $400 million contract from the US government to provide vaccine manufacturing capacity that can be called upon in the event of a pandemic or bioterrorism. The three companies will help provide infrastructure – either new or retrofitted facilities – that can be used to provide a  Read More »

Congressman criticises US handling of H5N1 papers

(Nature.com) An influential member of the US Congress remains dissatisfied with the government’s handling of two research papers on mutant forms of avian influenza, and is threatening legislation to control the controversial research. Jim Sensenbrenner (Republican, Wisconsin) today said that the lack of a cohesive policy for handling risky research funded by the National Institutes  Read More »

Freeze on mutant-flu research set to thaw

(Nature) If you thought that the controversy was over, think again. Last week’s publication of the second of two papers describing how to make mammalian-transmissible forms of the H5N1 avian influenza virus merely closes one chapter of a smouldering debate about the risks of the research. That debate seems certain to reignite in the coming  Read More »

UN food agency calls for collective action to combat foot-and-mouth disease

(UN News Centre) Collective action and solid commitments to a global strategy are necessary to control foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the United Nations food agency stressed today. “Recent FMD outbreaks around the globe demonstrate that animal diseases have no boundaries, can have a devastating impact and require a global response,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)  Read More »

Swine Flu Deaths In 2009 Topped Quarter Million, Study

(Medical News Today) Deaths worldwide from the 2009 influenza H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic are likely to be nearer 280,000, some 15 times more than the 18,500 reported from confirmed lab tests, suggests a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases this week. For the study, led by the US Centers for Disease Control and  Read More »

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