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Information poses bigger bioterrorism threat than microbes

(Wired UK) It is the spread of information rather than microbes that poses the biggest bioterrorism threat today, concluded a panel of experts at Chatham House today. Biosafety is no longer simply about controlling substances and microbes, but information, says Laurie Garrett who runs the Council on Foreign Relation’s Public Health Program. While we have Read More »

March 25, 2014
| Filed under Europe, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, International, and Research
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A New Killer Virus in China?

(Science/AAAS) In June 2012, three men removing slag from a derelict copper mine in southwestern China fell ill with severe pneumonia and died. Six months later, researchers went spelunking in the mine—an artificial cave hewn from a hillside—in search of pathogens. After taking anal swabs from bats, rats, and musk shrews living in the cave, Read More »

March 25, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Countermeasures, International, and Research
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Studying drug-resistant Tb

(Otago Daily Times) A high-powered collaboration between the University of Otago and the oldest medical university in Burma is likely to shed new light on the genetics of tuberculosis drug resistance.

March 25, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agents & Toxins, and Research
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Faster diagnosis key to finding drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova

(WHO) As part of key recommendations made by WHO to combat drug-resistant TB, the Republic of Moldova is introducing rapid diagnostic tools for MDR-TB at the point-of-care. Since 2012, Xpert MTB/RIF assay units have been installed in 30 district and municipal TB services across the country. Xpert MTB/RIF assay is a rapid, accurate test that Read More »

March 20, 2014
| Filed under Europe, Biotechnology, International, and Research
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WHO | Faster diagnosis key to finding drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova

March 20, 2014
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