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Suspect powder at Italy ministry sparks false alarm

(Chicago Tribune) Seven people were taken to hospital for checks after a suspect package at Italy’s labor ministry containing powder raised fears of possible anthrax contamination, but the parcel was found to be harmless. A ministry spokesman confirmed it was a false alarm after officials inspected the package at the offices in central Rome. Activists  Read More »

The role of the cellular entry point of anthrax identified

(Phys.org) A team led by Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with Gisou van der Goot at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), reveals that Antxr2a actually plays a role in embryonic development, orienting cell division along a specific plane, which is a prelude to the formation of  Read More »

US Plans for New H5N1 Science Reviews Ruffle Researchers

(AAAS) Researchers are giving mixed reviews to a draft U.S. government plan to subject some grant requests for studies involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus to special reviews—and perhaps even require the work to be kept secret. Elements of the plan have been “very controversial within [the] U.S. government” committee that developed it, Amy Patterson,  Read More »

Live pigs ‘blasted with explosives and monkeys infected with anthrax during cruel experiments’

(The Independent) Live pigs were blasted with explosives and forced to inhale mustard gas, and monkeys infected with anthrax during “disturbing and cruel” experiments at Porton Down, it was claimed today. Scientists at the top secret military research establishment in Wiltshire were accused of causing “substantial” suffering to animals in the past two years. The  Read More »

Smallpox virus detected in 300-year-old Siberian mummy

(LA Times) Thanks to vaccination efforts, smallpox — killer of hundreds of millions people around the world over the course of the 20th century alone — was eradicated in 1979. But even today the lethal variola virus, which causes the disease, is not completely impossible to come by. A team of French and Russian researchers  Read More »

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