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The trouble with American military laboratories

(Democracy & Freedom Watch) TBILISI – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem? According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international network of infectious disease surveillance laboratories whose mission Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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US biosecurity board calls for global research guidelines

(New Scientist) The top US biosecurity committee has called for global guidelines for research on dangerous flu strains. The move comes just weeks after the committee revised earlier advice about which details of two controversial flu studies could be published. But information released this week shows that the committee was divided over the issue, strengthening Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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H5N1 Researcher to Defy Dutch Gov’t?

(Scientist) A virologist at the center of the avian flu research controversy says he’ll publish without government permits. Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, who last September announced the creation of a mutant version of the H5N1 avian flu virus transmissible between ferrets, says that he is prepared to defy the Dutch Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Taking Measure of Countermeasures: Protecting the Protectors

(defpro) Good afternoon, Chairman Bilirakis, Ranking Member Richardson and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. It is an honor to testify before you today on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts regarding medical countermeasures (MCM) for first responders. As you are aware, the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) provides health and medical expertise in support Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Dengue Fever in the United States

(CDC Podcast) Dr. Amesh Adalja, an associate at the Center for Biosecurity and clinical assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School, of Medicine, discusses dengue fever outbreaks in the United States. Over the last decade, three dengue fever outbreaks occurred in the U.S. In response to these outbreaks various public health interventions were employed. Read More »