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Centers for Disease Control to talk high-level lab safety in Frederick

(Maryland Community News Online) Officials believe there are four private companies in the city limits that conduct research in biosafety-level labs, which handle dangerous pathogens, such as bird flu and anthrax. Details of the work and locations of such labs are private based on …

March 5, 2012
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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Kansas biosafety lab risk miniaturized

(Nature.com) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revised dramatically downward the risk of the lethal Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) escaping from a controversial proposed high-level animal biosafety lab in rural Kansas.

March 5, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Biosafety, and Research
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Op-Ed – Balancing Research Capability, Oversight, and Communication Post the H5N1 Controversy

Applied Biosafety, the journal of the American Biological Safety Association has provided the following pre-publication release of an editorial addressing the H5N1 publication controversy, with recommendations for strengthening biosafety and biosecurity at the institutional level. It will be published in print in Applied Biosafety, in Volume 17.1 March 31, 2012. Over the past months, numerous Read More »

February 29, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Webcast: H5N1 Research Discussion from the ASM Biodefense Meeting

Watch Tomorrow’s Complimentary Live Stream of the H5N1 Research Discussion from the ASM Biodefense Meeting! Moderated by the Chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), Paul Keim, Ph.D., this newly added session at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting will include discussions of the NSABB’s recommendations for the publication of Read More »

February 28, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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University Strengthens Lab Security Following Bird Flu Virus Controversy

(Global Security Newswire) The University of Wisconsin (Madison) has tightened security precautions around laboratories that work with dangerous disease agents even as the school has become involved in a public controversy over a study that resulted in a more transmissible strain of bird flu, the Wisconsin State Journal reported on Tuesday. University researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka Read More »