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Profectus BioSciences Receives NIAID Grant to Develop a Vaccine for Ebola and Marburg Viruses

(Press Release) The grant will support development of a trivalent vaccine to protect against infection with all major strains of Ebola and Marburg viruses, the two members of the filovirus family of hemorrhagic fever viruses. These agents are classified as Category A Priority Pathogens by the NIAID/NIH and CDC, and there are presently no pre-  Read More »

Microbiological Data Program Ignored in Budget Process

(Food Safety News) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Microbiological Data Program will almost certainly be eliminated in fiscal year 2013 after the Senate Appropriations Committee decided to not include funding for the $5 million program in its budget bill. The program, which was launched in 2001, currently tests about 15,000 samples of fruits and vegetables  Read More »

Guidelines in Development for Meeting New U.S. Biosecurity Standards

(Global Security Newswire) The Obama administration is set to circulate recommendations to assist jurisdictional organizations in complying with recently unveiled risk mitigation protocols for federally funded biological research that could raise concerns about misuse, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy quoted a senior federal health official as saying on Tuesday.

Controversy Continues After Engineered-Bird Flu-Study Published

(Wired News) After months of controversy, an experiment describing how H5N1 avian influenza can be modified into potentially human-contagious forms was published today. The study was originally submitted to the journal Nature in 2011. Concern that its details, along with those in a similar, as-yet-unpublished experiment, could be turned to malevolent ends delayed its publication.

Controversial Bird-Flu Research Published: How Worried Should We Be?

(Scientific American) A highly controversial research paper on bird flu was released today by the journal Nature. It shows that a particularly troublesome strain of avian influenza, designated H5N1, which has been worrying public health officials for more than a decade, has the potential to become a human pandemic. In other words, H5N1 bird flu,  Read More »

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