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USAID to provide $20 million to fight bird flu, other emerging threats

(Examiner) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced their commitment to $20 million in new funding to support the Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) battle with avian influenza and other emerging threats in global hotspots, according to a FAO news release Oct. 29. According to the release, the US assistance will help strengthen  Read More »

Migratory birds can spread haemorrhagic fever

(EurekAlert) A type of haemorrhagic fever that is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Balkans has begun to spread to new areas in southern Europe. Now Swedish researchers have shown that migratory birds carrying ticks are the possible source of contagion. The discovery is being published in the US journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic  Read More »

The Armageddon virus: Why experts fear a disease that leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years

(Mail Online) The symptoms appear suddenly with a headache, high fever, joint pain, stomach pain and vomiting. As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of bruising and uncontrolled bleeding. In at least 30  per cent of cases, Crimean-Congo Viral Hemorrhagic Fever is fatal. And so it proved this month when a 38-year-old garage owner  Read More »

Engineered NASA microbes could build bricks on Mars

(Open Minds) Dr. Lynn Rothschild spoke about synthetic biology at the BioDesign Forum that took place on September 26 and 27 in Cambridge, UK. Rothschild, who is an evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, is involved with NASA’s new Synthetic Biology Initiative. TreeHugger.com reports that this initiative aims to engineer microbes “that  Read More »

A Cup Of Tea To Battle Terrorism

(Personal Liberty) New research indicates that a powerful weapon in the fight against bioterrorism could be a simple cup of tea. The favorite English beverage has shown in studies the ability to kill certain deadly microorganisms and deactivate toxins. According to Dr. Simon Richardson, senior lecturer in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at the British University of Greenwich’s  Read More »

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