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When good food goes bad

(Center for Biosecurity of UPMC) The Center for Biosecurity offers recommendations for improving national capacity for responding to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

March 5, 2013
| Filed under Biosafety
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Publicly funded H5N1 vaccine available for high-risk people

(ChinaPost) A publicly funded H5N1 flu vaccine is available until Aug. 31 for people over 18 years old and at high risk, the Centers for Disease Control said yesterday.

March 4, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biosafety, and Countermeasures
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National grains biosecurity standard launched

(ManitobaCo-Operator) A new voluntary standard for biosecurity on Canada’s grain- and oilseed-producing farms is expected to help growers build or improve on their existing farmgate-level systems at any scale.

March 4, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Biosafety
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Early warning system provides 4-month forecast of malaria epidemics in northwest India

(EurekAlert) Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a University of Michigan theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found.

March 3, 2013
| Filed under South Asia and Biosafety
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Early warning system provides 4-month forecast of malaria epidemics in northwest India

(University of Michigan) Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a University of Michigan theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found.

March 3, 2013
| Filed under Biosafety
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