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Atypical BSE Has Never Led To Human vCJD – But Could It?

(Food Safety News) There is good news and bad news about the “L-type” atypical mad cow phenotype, found in the nearly 11-year-old, dead dairy cow discovered two weeks ago in California. The good news is no human has ever contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) disease from cattle infected with atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

May 8, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, and Public Health
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An inside look at research on NBAF

(KCUR) Reporters this week got an inside look into the deliberations the National Research Council (NRC) is having while studying plans for the controversial bio-defense facility proposed for the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, Kan. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is currently under review by oversight agencies. A special NRC committee held Read More »

May 8, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Research
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National Biosecurity Training Program Participation Exceeds Expectations

(Farmscape Online) The Canadian Swine Health Board’s biosecurity coordinator for Manitoba reports participation among the province’s pork producers in the National Biosecurity Training Program has exceeded all expectations. The National Biosecurity Training Program is based on the Canadian Swine Health Board’s National Biosecurity Standard and was developed to familiarize Canada’s pork producers with the principles Read More »

May 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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New FMD vaccine approval expected soon

(CattleNetwork.com) With recent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks reported in Taiwan and China, many livestock producers are growing increasingly nervous about the possibility of the disease occurring in the United States. FMD is one of the world’s most contagious animal viruses and an outbreak in the United States could cost more than $50 billion, experts estimate. Read More »

May 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Countermeasures
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Profectus BioSciences Receives NIAID Grant to Develop a Vaccine for Ebola and Marburg Viruses

(Press Release) The grant will support development of a trivalent vaccine to protect against infection with all major strains of Ebola and Marburg viruses, the two members of the filovirus family of hemorrhagic fever viruses. These agents are classified as Category A Priority Pathogens by the NIAID/NIH and CDC, and there are presently no pre- Read More »