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Virus-Hunting In Africa

(Wall Street Journal) Global health is big business nowadays. The sums can be enormous, but the health problems in the developing world are even larger, often seeming intractable. Health care everywhere involves stark economic and political choices, but in the developing world these may involve such basic questions as whether to build a hospital or Read More »

June 6, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Censored H5N1 Bird Flu Studies: Much Ado About Nothing?

(TakePart) Why we might have all freaked out for the wrong reasons. You may have heard the hubbub surrounding two different studies on H5N1 —aka Bird Flu—recently conducted in Wisconsin and The Netherlands. The researchers in both cases put the virus through a series of mutations in order to better understand how it may eventually Read More »

June 6, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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WHO hopes for meeting on dual-use research in late fall

(CIDRAP News) The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to hold a meeting late this fall to discuss “dual-use” research issues raised in the controversy over publication of two studies involving lab-modified H5N1 viruses with increased transmissibility, a WHO official said today. “We hope to hold a second meeting to discuss the broader concerns related to Read More »

June 1, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Colombia Reports Anthrax Livestock Deaths and Skin Lesions

(BusinessWeek) Colombia reported livestock deaths from anthrax on two farms in the country’s north near the border with Venezuela as well as a person with skin lesions. The disease killed goats, sheep and pigs on two farms in the La Guajira community, the first outbreaks in the country since April last year, and a person Read More »

May 31, 2012
| Filed under South America, Agriculture, International, and Public Health
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Veterinary workshop in Kazakhstan provides advanced training to diagnosticians, technicians, inspectors

(AgriLife Today) ASTANA, Kazakhstan – Veterinary diagnosticians, technicians and inspectors from the Republic of Kazakhstan received advanced training in molecular methods, biosafety measures and diagnostic epidemiology during a recent two-day workshop here, led by the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense.