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US Urges Country to Enact Biotech Law

(AllAfrica.com) The US Department of State has said that the US government would not bring in biotechnology resources into Nigeria until an appropriate legal framework is put in place in the country for the practice of modern biotechnology. Fatuma Sanneh, Economic/Commercial Officer of US Department of State, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to National Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biosafety, and Biotechnology
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Cowpox infection in US lab worker called a first

(CIDRAP News) A US laboratory worker contracted a painful, slow-healing cowpox virus infection on the job in 2010, marking the first such case reported in the United States, though the virus, a relative of smallpox, is known in Europe and Russia, according to a study published yesterday. The infected researcher had not worked with cowpox Read More »

April 30, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Clinics battle tropical superbugs – Houston Business Journal

Clinics battle tropical superbugsHouston Business JournalResearchers at UTMB's Galveston National Laboratory wear protective space suits due to the lab's biosafety level 4 rating. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specified these levels as a biocontainment precaution, and 4 is the highest.

April 27, 2012
| Filed under Biosafety
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The trouble with American military laboratories

(Democracy & Freedom Watch) TBILISI – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem? According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international network of infectious disease surveillance laboratories whose mission Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Hurdles Remain For South End Infectious Disease Lab – WBUR

WBURHurdles Remain For South End Infectious Disease LabWBURSo now, this is a typical biosafety level 2 lab. So people will be walking here, putting [on] a lab coat, put their gloves on. Bob Oakes: So what's in front of us right now are a half-dozen or more rows of long benches of lab work space, Read More »