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Lab Accident at San Francisco VA Leaves Man Dead of Bacterial Meningitis

(KQED News) A young lab assistant at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco died on Saturday after becoming infected with a deadly strain of bacterial meningitis that he had been working with in the lab. Officials at the VA wouldn’t release the man’s name, but said he was 25 years old and had been Read More »

May 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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Lab Security Standards Raise Chances of Mutant-Bird-Flu Catastrophe

(Wired News) Fears that bioterrorists could learn from controversial experiments that make H5N1 avian influenza more virulent have overshadowed a more pressing danger: accidental releases, laboratory infections and disgruntled workers. Dozens of all-too-human mistakes have occurred in just the last decade inside high-security laboratories, and many experts say new H5N1 flu strains engineered to infect Read More »

May 4, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Guidelines in Development for Meeting New U.S. Biosecurity Standards

(Global Security Newswire) The Obama administration is set to circulate recommendations to assist jurisdictional organizations in complying with recently unveiled risk mitigation protocols for federally funded biological research that could raise concerns about misuse, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy quoted a senior federal health official as saying on Tuesday.

May 3, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Biosecurity and Biosafety Officer – The Conversation

Biosecurity and Biosafety OfficerThe ConversationThis position will be responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing review of programs that will ensure the University complies with regulatory requirements that focus on biosecurity and biosafety. You will provide high-level, accurate, …

May 2, 2012
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NIH preparing tool to help labs cope with new DURC policy

(CIDRAP News) Federal officials are working on guidance to help local institutions implement the government’s new policy on the oversight of life-sciences dual-use research of concern (DURC), an official from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said today. Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH, Read More »