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The Evolution of Bird Flu, and the Race to Keep Up

(New York Times) On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead. The girl was the most recent documented victim of the influenza virus H5N1, a strain that has caused 606 known human  Read More »

Anthrax Vaccine Distribution Recommendations Approach Completion

(Global Security Newswire) Recommendations are nearing completion to aid U.S. authorities in determining the order in which potential victims of an aerosolized anthrax attack receive vaccinations, an advisory body for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. The CDC Immunization Practices Advisory Committee would provide the finished recommendations to U.S. government personnel  Read More »

A Crypto Expert’s View on Scary Bird Flu Data

(Scientific American) After months of contentious debate, the journal Science is publishing a controversial study on Friday about H5N1 avian influenza‘s ability to spread among mammals. The report faced a tortuous path to publication as some researchers sought to censor the study’s findings for fear that they could be replicated and put to nefarious use.  Read More »

The Sky-High Price of Sniffing Out Anthrax

(Businessweek) … Right now the Department of Homeland Security uses 600 secret air filters to detect lethal pathogens. Local health officials in the roughly 30 cities that have the filters must manually retrieve them every day and cart them back to labs for testing. So if terrorists released something deadly into the air, it could  Read More »

World Health Organization Perspective on Implementation of International Health Regulations

(Emerging Infectious Diseases) In 2005, the International Health Regulations were adopted at the 58th World Health Assembly; in June 2007, they were entered into force for most countries. In 2012, the world is approaching a major 5-year milestone in the global commitment to ensure national capacities to identify, investigate, assess, and respond to public health  Read More »

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