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World Health Organization warns of “spreading” yellow fever outbreak in Darfur

(CBS News) A yellow fever outbreak has hit Sudan’s Darfur region, infecting up to 350 people and killing 107 in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. The WHO warns that the disease could spread all over the country. As of Nov. 11, the WHO said in a statement there were 329  Read More »

Nuclear and Chem-Bio Weapons Prohibition

(In Depth News) A gathering theme in world affairs is the desirability of a treaty [convention] to ban nuclear weapons. Such a treaty would bring the following benefits to all states and people: freedom from nuclear war or nuclear attack, freedom from possible “false-alarm” nuclear missile launch, and freedom from possible acquisition by terrorists of  Read More »

Sask. firm’s documentary on biological warfare to be seen worldwide

(Leader-Post) A Saskatchewan-based company is making big waves internationally with its new documentary. Invisible Threat, produced by Saskatchewan’s 4 Square Entertainment, will premiere Saturday at 10 p.m. on CityTV. Early in 2013, it will be seen worldwide on the Al Jazeera English network. Gerald Sperling, president of 4 Square and executive producer of Invisible Threat,  Read More »

Research on anthrax vaccine on to counteract threat of bioterrorism

(Domain-B) Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are aiming to help counteract the threat of bioterrorism by undertaking new research to develop a vaccine against anthrax. Dr Rebecca Ingram from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s is working with scientists from Cardiff University, the Republic of Georgia, Turkey and the USA in  Read More »

Anthrax outbreak kills 30 hippos

(iAfrica) Thirty hippos have been killed by a bacterial outbreak in the Kruger National Park (KNP), the SA National Parks (SANParks) said on Monday. SANParks said an anthrax outbreak was identified in late August and post mortem results confirmed that most of the dead hippos were infected. The carcasses were discovered along the Letaba and  Read More »

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