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By Region: Asia/Pacific

Experimental vaccine halts transmission of Hendra virus

ADELAIDE NOW — A VACCINE for Hendra, the virus that spreads from horses to people, has been developed. The findings of a CSIRO study will be announced in Adelaide today, and are expected to lead to a halt to the Hendra virus which has killed four people and more than 30 horses since it emerged Read More »

May 17, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, and Research
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Personal biosecurity for livestock farm visits

CATTLE NETWORK — Recent animal health problems in Asia and elsewhere keep pointing to the need to reconsider our defense against emerging animal diseases. In the last decade, biosecurity has often been talked about in agriculture, but practiced haphazardly. Animal biosecurity covers a variety of management strategies aimed at preventing viruses, pathogenic bacteria, parasites and Read More »

May 12, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Agriculture, and Countermeasures
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Anatomy of an outbreak

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON — Researchers have found a genetic solution to the puzzle of why the chikungunya virus infected millions of people after it was introduced to Asia in 2005 but infected almost no one after an earlier Asian introduction.

May 10, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Research
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U.N. Chief Lauds Renewal of Anti-WMD Panel

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday lauded the Security Council’s decision last week to renew for 10 years the mandate of a panel charged with overseeing U.N. member states’ implementation of an anti-WMD measure (see GSN, April 21). “Concerted international cooperation and action remains vital to the prevention of proliferation of nuclear, chemical and Read More »

April 28, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Plugging Holes Over Bioweapons

This December, the picturesque city of Geneva will host the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The BWC, which 163 countries are state parties to, prohibits the use, development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. In advance of the Review Conference, international delegates to the Convention met from April 13 Read More »