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Lawmaker Voices Concern Over Bird Flu Review

(Global Security Newswire) A purported effort to prompt a federal biodefense panel to rescind its prior recommendation to withhold data from a pair of avian influenza studies would not aid in resolving potential new controversies involving scientific research with weapons applications, U.S. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) told the head of the National Institutes of Health  Read More »

Fight Over Dutch H5N1 Paper Enters Endgame

(Science Now) AMSTERDAM — After an international meeting of scientists and security experts on Monday, the Dutch government says it may decide very soon whether virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam is eligible for an export license that would allow him to resubmit his controversial H5N1 transmissibility study for publication by Science. Fouchier,  Read More »

Kansas bioterror lab: A money pit or a gold mine?

(Kansas City Star) There’s a whole lot of uncertainly in the middle of Kansas. Make that hole — as in the gaping construction site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan. The cost of the federally funded animal-research facility — NBAF for short, commonly pronounced “En-baf”  Read More »

Mutant-flu researcher backs down on plan to publish without permission

(Nature.com) Ron Fouchier, a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, whose work on the H5N1 avian flu virus has been embroiled in controversy, told Nature this afternoon that he has now reluctantly agreed to apply for an export permit to submit his work to the journal Science. Fouchier’s paper is one  Read More »

Navy taking steps against bio weapons

(The Virginian-Pilot) Consider a hypothetical scenario: A foreign enemy launches a biological attack against a U.S. Navy ship passing close to shore, and no one on board sees it happen. How long before the crew knows something is wrong? A decade ago, the answer would have been when people started getting sick, and as recently  Read More »

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