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		<title>FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Yahoo! News) Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were&#160;&#160;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-searches-apartment-ricin-letter-case-191809079.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Yahoo! News) Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>‘Agro-terrorism: One of the greatest terrorist threats we face’: Prof</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Dairy Reporter) Top public health professor David Dausey warns that increasing global supply chain complexity carries with it a greater risk of product contamination, with potentially disastrous results for dairy brands and public health, and a growing need to ensure product safety.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Dairy Reporter) Top public health professor David Dausey warns that increasing global supply chain complexity carries with it a greater risk of product contamination, with potentially disastrous results for dairy brands and public health, and a growing need to ensure product safety.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Swine flu found in elephant seals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Fox News) The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California. Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Fox News) The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California. Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs.
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		<title>FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bioterrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(The Washington Post) Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which&#160;&#160;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-searches-spokane-apartment-in-ricin-letter-case/2013/05/18/bdd2a864-bffa-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(The Washington Post) Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Washington, Oregon Conduct Bioterrorism Response Exercises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bioterrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Global Biodefense) Public health personnel, first responders and emergency operations staff from counties in southern Washington state are hosting a three-day exercise this week to test their response to a simulated bioterrorism attack.The exercise is part of the Washington State Annual Bioterrorism Exercise taking place May 21-23 to test readiness among public agencies and community&#160;&#160;<a href="http://globalbiodefense.com/2013/05/20/washington-oregon-conduct-bioterrorism-response-exercises/?utm_source=feedly">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Global Biodefense) Public health personnel, first responders and emergency operations staff from counties in southern Washington state are hosting a three-day exercise this week to test their response to a simulated bioterrorism attack.The exercise is part of the Washington State Annual Bioterrorism Exercise taking place May 21-23 to test readiness among public agencies and community organizations should terrorists unleash a biological agent, such as anthrax, in Southwest Washington.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>NAMRU-3 Researchers Collaborate on Dengue Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Global Biodefense) The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3) initiated a new project for efficient and sustained control of dengue vectors in Lahore, Pakistan. The emergence of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever is considered a major public health threat there.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Global Biodefense) The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3) initiated a new project for efficient and sustained control of dengue vectors in Lahore, Pakistan. The emergence of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever is considered a major public health threat there. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Predicting infectious influenza</title>
		<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/ip-pii052013.php?utm_source=feedly</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(EurekAlert) A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a report to be published in the International Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(EurekAlert) A new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human, according to a report to be published in the International Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Novel coronavirus infection &#8211; update</title>
		<link>http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_05_18_ncov/en/index.html?utm_source=feedly</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WHO) The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV). The patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple coexisting medical conditions. She became ill on 28 April 2013 and is currently in critical but stable condition.The patient was identified as part of&#160;&#160;<a href="http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_05_18_ncov/en/index.html?utm_source=feedly">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(WHO) The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of an additional laboratory-confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV). The patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple coexisting medical conditions. She became ill on 28 April 2013 and is currently in critical but stable condition.The patient was identified as part of the ongoing investigation into an outbreak that began in a health care facility since the beginning of April 2013.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bioterrorism drills in Ore., Wash. next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(KGW) Fire crews, police and health officials in the Portland Metro area next week will simulate a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon. "The incident is simulated, the sickness and death imagined, yet all involved will take it very seriously," said Port of Portland spokeswoman Kama Simonds.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(KGW) Fire crews, police and health officials in the Portland Metro area next week will simulate a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon. "The incident is simulated, the sickness and death imagined, yet all involved will take it very seriously," said Port of Portland spokeswoman Kama Simonds.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>MIT summit to explore new approach to diseases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(TheBostonGlobe) More than 300 scientists will gather this weekend at MIT for the first international workshop devoted exclusively to exploring this simple idea: Approach diseases such as cancer and diabetes with an engineer’s mind-set, including thinking about cells as if they were software and hardware that can be ­rewired, debugged, programmed, and hacked.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(TheBostonGlobe) More than 300 scientists will gather this weekend at MIT for the first international workshop devoted exclusively to exploring this simple idea: Approach diseases such as cancer and diabetes with an engineer’s mind-set, including thinking about cells as if they were software and hardware that can be ­rewired, debugged, programmed, and hacked.]]></content:encoded>
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