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Briefing on H7N9 Avian Flu – China – Los Alamos Daily Post

(LosAlamosDailyPost) As of April 9, there are 24 cases of humans infected with H7N9 avian influenza in China, seven proved fatal. All 24 cases have occurred in eastern China, within four neighboring provinces: Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. Currently, there are more than 530 contacts of those confirmed cases under investigation.  Read More »

BARDA Public Health and Medical Consequence Modeling Network

(GlobalBiodefense) The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency Division of Analytic Decision Support (BARDA/ADS) is seeking tools to support decision-making against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) threat agents, pandemic influenza, and emerging infectious diseases. The solicitation calls for visual analytics, data informatics, models, and simulation tools to help better inform  Read More »

The tricky task of protecting plants in a globalized age

(FAO) Odds are, today you ate something that came from another hemisphere. A mind-boggling $1.1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally each year, with food items accounting for 82 percent of the total. And where fruit or plants can travel, so too can less-savory characters. Fruit fly eggs hidden  Read More »

Lab Prepares New Bioagent Infection Detector

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) The Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico is preparing a hand-held device that hospitals could one day use to quickly test patients for infection by anthrax, ricin or other potential bioterror agents. The enhanced version of the SpinDx device would allow emergency room doctors to analyze blood samples to determine  Read More »

Currently Approved Drugs Found Active Against Bioterror Threats in Laboratory … – Lab Manager Magazine

DigitalJournal.comCurrently Approved Drugs Found Active Against Bioterror Threats in Laboratory …Lab Manager MagazineThe pathogens included emerging diseases and potential bioterror threats ranging from anthrax to the Marburg and Ebola viruses. In testing a library of 1,012 Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs, commonly used for treatment of every-day ailments …Currently used drugs  Read More »