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By Region: South Asia

FLU NEWS SCAN: Global flu activity, H5N1 vaccine in Thailand

(CIDRAP) Globally, only regional pockets show increased flu activity. Global flu activity remains low with the exception of Hong Kong, Madagascar, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, health officials report. “Influenza activity in the northern hemisphere temperate regions is continuing to decline or back to baseline levels indicating the season is ending,” the World Health Read More »

June 11, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and Public Health
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Agriculture-development programmes: USDA/FAS delegation visits Punjab to review progress

(Business Recorder) A delegation from the US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA/FAS) visited the Punjab last week as part of a larger visit to the country to assess the progress of USDA’s $49 million worth of agricultural development programmes in Pakistan. The goal of these programmes is to increase agricultural productivity and economic Read More »

June 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, South Asia, Agriculture, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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WHO hopes for meeting on dual-use research in late fall

(CIDRAP News) The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to hold a meeting late this fall to discuss “dual-use” research issues raised in the controversy over publication of two studies involving lab-modified H5N1 viruses with increased transmissibility, a WHO official said today. “We hope to hold a second meeting to discuss the broader concerns related to Read More »

June 1, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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India Opens Chem-Bio Defense Site

(Global Security Newswire) India’s Defense Research and Development Organization on Friday formally opened an advanced “chem-bio sensor facility”. The new facility is a component of the Defense Research and Development Establishment in the city of Gwalior. The site is “engaged in the development of state of the art products and technologies for chemical and biological Read More »

May 31, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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New Plan To Increase Global Access To Vaccines Endorsed By World Health Assembly

(Medical News Today) Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly have endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities…