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South Korea Announces Biodefense Exercise

(Global Security Newswire) South Korea said on Friday it would collaborate with the United States in an exercise next week aimed at assessing their capacity to respond to intentional or natural disease outbreaks, Kyodo News reported. Roughly 190 individuals representing 50 U.S. and South Korean government organizations are due to participate in the four-day “Able Read More »

May 11, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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The WHO must reform for its own health

(Nature Medicine) The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency. To ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms. The World Health Organization was born in the bifurcated Cold War world in 1948, and every aspect Read More »

May 11, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Obama should practice what he preaches on food security, say experts

(Examiner.com) U.S. President Barack Obama has invited a number of African leaders to join the upcoming G8 summit for a discussion on food security on their continent, the White House announced on Monday. But experts say Obama has failed to address food security at home. They will join leaders at the G8 summit at Camp Read More »

May 11, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Europe, North America, Agriculture, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Bird flu papers cause controversy

(The Telegram) Four months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu. Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the government’s blessing. The revision appears online in the journal Nature. It’s the near-conclusion to Read More »

May 8, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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How the World Health Organization is Helping to Prevent a Catastrophic H5N1 …

(World Health Organization HQ, Geneva) H5N1 influenza is what keeps people here up at night. The flu strain is deadly to humans on an order of magnitude greater than any other flu virus in history, including the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. It kills approximately 60% of the people it infects. Just to put that Read More »