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Coping With An Anthrax Attack: What Would A City Do?

(Annenberg Digital News) Using Seattle as a focal point, University of Southern California researchers at the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) assessed the some of the consequences of a large-scale anthrax attack. Various visual scenarios examined psychological and economic impacts of hundreds of Seattle residents who participated in the study. Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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New report finds that the US government is the largest funder of global health R&D worldwide

(Burness Communications) A new report that the United States government is the largest funder of global health research and development in the world, investing $12.7 billion over the past 10 years in the creation of new vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other products for neglected diseases of the developing world. That funding, according to the report, Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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US Urges Country to Enact Biotech Law

(AllAfrica.com) The US Department of State has said that the US government would not bring in biotechnology resources into Nigeria until an appropriate legal framework is put in place in the country for the practice of modern biotechnology. Fatuma Sanneh, Economic/Commercial Officer of US Department of State, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to National Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biosafety, and Biotechnology
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Cowpox infection in US lab worker called a first

(CIDRAP News) A US laboratory worker contracted a painful, slow-healing cowpox virus infection on the job in 2010, marking the first such case reported in the United States, though the virus, a relative of smallpox, is known in Europe and Russia, according to a study published yesterday. The infected researcher had not worked with cowpox Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Dutch officials approve publication of Fouchier’s H5N1 study

(CIDRAP News) The Dutch government has granted virologist Ron Fouchier, PhD, an export license that allows him to submit his much-debated H5N1 transmissibility paper to Science, according to a ScienceInsider report published today. “Now we can move on,” Fouchier told ScienceInsider. His report details how he and his colleagues developed an H5N1 virus capable of Read More »