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An inside look at research on NBAF

(KCUR) Reporters this week got an inside look into the deliberations the National Research Council (NRC) is having while studying plans for the controversial bio-defense facility proposed for the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, Kan. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is currently under review by oversight agencies. A special NRC committee held  Read More »

Emergency medical delivery test went well, officials say

(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Sunday’s test of an emergency system for delivering medication to Twin Cities households via the U.S. mail went off without obvious hitches, but it’ll take time to assess it for less obvious problems and barriers, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health said Sunday evening. Operation Medicine Delivery was the first  Read More »

Canadian doctor zeroes in on vaccine for Ebola virus

(Globe and Mail) Gary Kobinger has been chasing vaccines since childhood. Growing up in Quebec City in the early 1990s, he remembers being galvanized to action by documentaries about people infected with HIV-AIDS – back when the illness was still new, mysterious and terrifying. “In my mind, as a teenager, this was unacceptable. So I  Read More »

SF Lab Reviews Safety After Lab Worker Dies

(NBC Bay Area) Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher’s death after he handled a rare strain of bacteria, officials said Thursday. Richard Din, the meningitis research associate who died Saturday  Read More »

NIH rejects charge it slanted the H5N1 agenda for NSABB

(CIDRAP News) In a lengthy letter, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official has rejected recent charges that the agency planned a biased meeting agenda in an effort to induce the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to act as it did in voting for full publication of two much-debated studies on H5N1 virus  Read More »

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