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Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly closes with concern over new global health threat

(WHO) After seven days of intense discussions, the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) concluded with agreement on a range of new public health measures and recommendations aimed at securing greater health benefits for all people, everywhere. In all, 24 resolutions and 5 decisions were adopted by the nearly 2000 delegates representing the World Health Organization’s Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, International, Public Health, and Research
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Film reveals new footage of Soviet bioweapons program

(CornellChronicle) The purpose of a secret Soviet facility was to produce tons of anthrax bacteria to kill Americans, according to a U.S. government official. The facility was capable of producing 300 metric tons of anthrax in 10 months – more capacity than the entire Iraqi biological weapons program. “The scale is just chilling,” Andrew Weber Read More »

May 15, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Policy & Initiatives
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First Case of Novel Coronavirus in France

(GlobalBiodefense) French health authorities today announced a 65-year old citizen is hospitalized in intensive care with an acute respiratory infection after having contracted the emerging novel coronavirus (nCoV).

May 9, 2013
| Filed under Europe and Public Health
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New antiviral treatment could significantly reduce global burden of hepatitis C

(EurekAlert) Around 150 million people globally are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) – a major cause of liver disease and the fastest growing cause of liver transplantation and liver cancer. 1 New prevention strategies are urgently required as people are continuing to be infected with HCV. Findings, published in Hepatology, reveal the Read More »

May 7, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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The tricky task of protecting plants in a globalized age

(FAO) Odds are, today you ate something that came from another hemisphere. A mind-boggling $1.1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally each year, with food items accounting for 82 percent of the total. And where fruit or plants can travel, so too can less-savory characters. Fruit fly eggs hidden in the skins of Read More »