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Centers for Disease Control to talk high-level lab safety in Frederick

(Maryland Community News Online) Officials believe there are four private companies in the city limits that conduct research in biosafety-level labs, which handle dangerous pathogens, such as bird flu and anthrax. Details of the work and locations of such labs are private based on …

Senior US Lawmaker Leaps Into H5N1 Flu Controversy

(Science AAAS) After months of silence from members of Congress, a senior member of the US House of Representatives has publicly inserted himself into the debate over two controversial studies that showed how to make the H5N1 avian influenza virus transmissible …

Planned CDC Funding Cut Seen Endangering Key Biodefense Efforts

(Global Security Newswire) Congressional appropriations for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might fall by $664 million under the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 budget request, a reduction that could significantly undermine U.S. medical preparedness and countermeasure programs if backup funding sources fall through, the journal Nature reported on Tuesday. The proposed reduction would  Read More »

NSABB Members React to Request for Second Look at H5N1 Flu Studies

(Science AAAS) The comments below come after months of rapid-fire developments in the H5N1 flu research controversy. It began late last year, when the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recommended that two science teams delete key details from …

Kansas biosafety lab risk miniaturized

(Nature.com) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revised dramatically downward the risk of the lethal Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) escaping from a controversial proposed high-level animal biosafety lab in rural Kansas.

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