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Dangerous Acquaintances

(Huffington Post) Experiments to make some of the world’s deadliest viruses more contagious to humans or to learn the secrets of those that already are contagious surge to the top of the news and slip downward with regularity. Now they are up again. This time it is work with the H5N1 avian flu virus, in  Read More »

Story Of The Year Goes Largely Unnoticed

(Huffington Post) I happen to be one very minor casualty of the eventually victorious war on smallpox. When I was vaccinated as a child, something uncharacteristically went wrong and I ended up contracting, for a short while, a mild form of cowpox. …

Municipality reviews bans – Russian birds, eggs OK

(Arab Times Kuwait English Daily) He noted the quarterly import of meat from Bangladesh has also been suspended to prevent foot and mouth disease. He explained the committee is active and plans on recommending to retain the ban on import of birds from the GCC countries until Public …

HOWEY: What does it mean to be a statesman?

(Evening News and Tribune) But it is the WMD, including biological weapons, in the possession of terrorist groups that former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates acknowledged on CBS’s 60 Minutes that “Keep me up at night.” Myers not only has worked to implement Nunn-Lugar around …

Oklahoma legislators want castor beans to be outlawed

(Tulsa World) Ricin, which can be extracted from crushed castor beans, is so potent a toxin that a dose equivalent to a few grains of salt induces a slow, agonizing death marked by vomiting and diarrhea. Most famously, ricin was used in the 1970s to assassinate a …

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