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Kenya’s Biosafety Authority trains staff, prepares country for trading in GMOs – NL-Aid

Kenya's Biosafety Authority trains staff, prepares country for trading in GMOsNL-AidThe Board has gone ahead to set up a biosafety clearing house, appointed key personnel and put in some regulations for services like contained use, environment release, the import and export regulations and the latest on labelling regulations which now …and more »

August 7, 2012
| Filed under Biosafety
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Experts call for precautionary steps as dengue returns

(The International News) Although no death has been reported so far due to the dengue hemorrhagic fever this year in Karachi, the number of patients reached 136 on Saturday when two more patients tested positive for the mosquito-borne illness. Four patients had tested positive for the dengue fever on Friday. Interestingly, all the 136 dengue-positive Read More »

August 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Public Health
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Ebola a potential bio-terror weapon

(The Observer) The dramatic nature of the Ebola outbreak in Kibaale district raises concerns about the cryptic intersection between global security and public health disasters. This is so because Ebola could very well pose an unprecedented frontier of bioterrorism, because it is complicated, with nonspecific symptoms making its generic diagnosis difficult, or even sometimes impossible. Read More »

August 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Biosafety
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White House Issues U.S. Biothreat Detection Plan

(Global Security Newswire) A U.S. biological threat detection plan issued by the White House on Tuesday aims in part to guide the preparation of measures for alerting the public of a possible intentional release of disease materials, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported. An accompanying statement by President Obama describes the document Read More »

August 3, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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National biosurveillance strategy aims to detect manifold threats

(CIDRAP) The Obama Administration this week unveiled the nation’s first national biosurveillance strategy, designed to detect a range of threats, including bioterror attacks, infectious disease outbreaks, agricultural threats, and foodborne illness outbreaks. In a letter prefacing the 8-page plan, which the White House unveiled on Jul 31, President Barack Obama wrote that this step is part of Read More »