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South Korea Not Prepared For Smallpox Attack by North: Report

(Global Security Newswire) South Korea is still not able to handle the effects of a smallpox attack by North Korea, which is judged to have the ability to manufacture the lethal virus, the Korea Herald reported on Monday. Pyongyang’s biological weapon abilities include the capacity to reconstitute from available digital genetic sequences the highly virulent  Read More »

Indonesian woman becomes fifth bird flu victim this year

(Telegraph.co.uk) A 24-year-old woman has died of bird flu on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the fifth human death from the virus this year, a health ministry official said on Wednesday. “She tested positive for the H5N1 virus by the health ministry’s laboratory. It’s the fifth death here this year,” the ministry’s head of animal-borne infectious diseases,  Read More »

Defense Ministry distributes guidelines on bioterrorism

(The Korea Herald) About 130 pages long, the guidelines cover the armed forces’ response to bioterrorism at different echelons and swift medical support in the aftermath, Song added. The guidelines also detail characteristics of bioterrorism agents such as anthrax, …

New foot-and-mouth disease hotbed found in south of Kazakhstan

(Trend.az) Signs of foot-and-mouth disease were revealed in 26 head of cattle and 280 head of small cattle in the Ulken-Sulutor rural district in the Zhambyl region, Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry said. “Information was received from the Ulken-Sulutor rural …

Vietnamese man hospitalized with H5N1 infection

(CIDRAP News) A 22-year-old man in Vietnam is in critical condition with an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to media reports. Nguyen Van Vin Chau, Ho Chi Minh City's director of tropical diseases, said the man is from Binh …

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