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CDC Refuses to Identify “Select Agent” Sites

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. government is not obligated to disclose the names or placement of facilities that manage dangerous disease materials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told activists in Maryland on Tuesday. The United States as of March 1 had 365 sites listed as handling or delivering potentially harmful substances designated  Read More »

Guelph letter bomber issued indefinite prison term

(Waterloo Record) The water contained the deadly poison Ricin. He also sent the bottles to the CIBC and to Old City Hall provincial court Justice Bernard Kelly, who had given Arnaout a conditional discharge after he pleaded guilty to harassing a talent agency owner.

Another Clue to E. Coli O104:H4?

(Food Safety News) Scientists in Oslo say sequencing of a particular virulent strain of E. coli O103:H25, which caused an outbreak in Norway in 2006, revealed a resemblance to the 2011 German outbreak strain of E. coli O104:H4, and suggests the two strains are related.Writing in the online journal PLoS ONE, the researchers with the  Read More »

Secret Army volunteer’s widow blames VA for spouse’s death

(CNN) “I promised Wray I would never give up the fight.” It was a wife’s final pledge to her dying husband, who was once identified as Medical Volunteer No. 6692 at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. In 1973, Army Pvt. Wray Forrest spent two months at Edgewood as a volunteer human test subject in a top secret  Read More »

NIH-supported scientists investigate a newly emerging staph strain

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Using genome sequencing and household surveillance, National Institutes of Health scientists and their colleagues from Columbia University Medical Center and St. George’s University of London have pieced together how a newly emerging type of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has adapted to transmit more easily among humans. Their new study  Read More »

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