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Mosquito Wars: Secret Bioweapons Development In Nazi Germany

(Science 2.0) The Nazis studied everything to gain an advantage. Those stories about mysticism and artifacts aren’t wrong, and the advanced weapons projects are well known, that is why US President Harry Truman authorized “Operation Paperclip” to recruit their scientists and engineers, rather than just kidnapping them the way Communist leaders in the USSR did.  Read More »

H5N1 death of Alberta nurse may have been from illegal Chinese poultry market

(Calgary Sun) An illegal poultry market may be to blame for the H5N1 death of an Alberta woman. That’s according to a letter to the editor to the Journal of Infection by Chinese researchers in Beijing. The researchers drew parallels between the Jan. 8, 2014, case and a Jan. 6, 2009, case where a 19-year-old  Read More »

Opinion: Why global health security is a national priority

(CNN) Eleven years ago this week, the world faced the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, a new epidemic that infected some 8,000 people, took the lives of 775 individuals, and inflicted $30 billion in damage to regional economies. The emergence of SARS was a wake-up call for the World Health Organization and  Read More »

Florida Man Charged in Toxin Sale Appears in New Jersey Court

(NBC6 South Florida) A Florida man who allegedly sold poison to an undercover agent and said it was capable of killing someone within two days made his first court appearance in New Jersey on Tuesday to face charges that could put him in prison for life. Jesse Korff appeared in U.S. District Court shackled and  Read More »

Uganda: CDC Health Projects Improve Disease Detection and Control

(All Africa) The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas. This was revealed in an article published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by CDC on January 30. For  Read More »

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