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Industry meets government to discuss foot and mouth disease risk

(ABC) The Sheepmeat Council says an Australian outbreak of foot and mouth disease is inevitable and it wants producers to be vigilant. Government and livestock industry representatives yesterday met in Canberra to discuss Australia’s readiness to deal with FMD. The Sheepmeat Council says it’s encouraging that those groups all see eye-to-eye on what needs to be done.

A Bird Flu Spreads in Seals. Could Humans Be Next?

(Time) Last fall, 162 harbor seal pups mysteriously washed up dead on the shores of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Puzzled, scientists conducted autopsies on five of the animals, which suggested that a respiratory infection had killed them. Samples of the seals’ tissue were then analyzed further and a common virus was discovered: a new strain of influenza that appeared to have  Read More »

STEC Derived HUS: Infection of Toxemia?

(Food Safety News) For some time now, the worldwide food supply has been under attack by a bacterium we know well as a generally non-trouble-making resident of the human colon (Escherichia coli), which has lately been possessed of a terrible “new” weapon in the form of Shiga toxin. We call this beast “Shiga toxin-producing E.  Read More »

Flu researchers bristle under federal policy

(Nature) It has been four months since the US government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose significant risks to the public if misapplied. At a meeting in New York on Monday, representatives of leading institutions that perform such research discussed their experiences  Read More »

5 things you should know about Ebola

(NBCNews) An outbreak of Ebola in western Uganda has killed 14 people, according to news reports. Here are five things you should know about this virulent and often deadly infection: What is Ebola? Ebola, officially known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe disease caused by the Ebola virus that was first recognized in Africa  Read More »

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