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Beyond the breach: Officials look back at safety and security a decade after anthrax scare

(FrederickNewsPost.com) Ten years ago today, a leaking flask of anthrax set off a series of events that led scientist Bruce Ivins to an unsettling discovery: Anthrax spores had made their way outside a containment lab, contaminating several areas and renewing fears that the community at large was at risk for possible exposure. Army investigators never  Read More »

Government Acts On Biosecurity

(The Biological SCENE) A long-awaited federal policy on oversight of dual-use research in the life sciences was issued on March 29 on a somewhat obscure government website (oba.od.nih.gov). The policy comes in the midst of controversy over the conduct and publication of two recent H5N1 avian flu experiments. The policy document was quickly followed by  Read More »

Ebola expert to give presentation on virus in Hamilton

(The Missoulian) In the summer of 1976, van der Groen was a 33-year-old biochemist and research assistant at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium. Reports of an unknown infectious disease led him and a team of scientists to the central African nation of Zaire, now named the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Near the  Read More »

India may become world’s top beef exporter by 2013: USDA

(Hindu Business Line) However, the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in cattle could pose problems in the country’s march towards the world’s leading buffalo meat supplier, USDA said. “While there are rumours of new market openings in Eastern Europe and Indonesia, no known trade has yet occurred in these regions and India’s FMD status  Read More »

Warming climate reveals links to infectious disease

(The Daily Climate) He predicts temperatures and rainfall will have an “overwhelming” effect on tick-borne disease. Strong winds could spread anthrax. West Nile virus is susceptible to changes in temperature and rainfall. Baylis noted that outbreaks of these diseases have not been common. In a 2008 study of 335 human disease outbreaks between 1940 and  Read More »

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