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HHS issues medical surge guidance for healthcare systems

(CIDRAP News) The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a new planning tool to help hospitals and health systems prepare for medical surges that could result from a bioterror attack, natural disaster, …

Virus in one controversial H5N1 study wasn’t lethal

(CIDRAP News) – Breaking a prolonged silence, the author of one of two controversial studies dealing with mutant H5N1 viruses said today that the virus his team created went airborne to spread among ferrets, but it didn’t kill them.

Defense Authorization Measure Yields Less for Chem-Bio Defense, More for …

(Genetic Engineering News) Going forward, Handelman told Congress, CBEP will work to eliminate threats four ways: By consolidating and securing collections of pathogens deemed especially dangerous that might serve as the source for biological weapons; providing laboratory safety …

Researchers show how viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly

(National Science Foundation) Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Science.

Newly engineered highly transmissible H5N1 strain ignites controversy about balancing scientific discovery and public safety

(American College of Physicians) Below is information about two articles being published early online www.annals.org, the Annals of Internal Medicine website. The information is not intended to substitute for the full articles as sources of information. Full text will be posted at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26. Annals of Internal Medicine attribution is required  Read More »

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