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Control on Bulgarian-Turkish border will be stepped up: agriculture minister

(Focus News) Tsarevo – Control on the Bulgarian-Turkish border will be stepped up after the Bulgarian government cancelled the construction of a facility against the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food Miroslav Naydenov said in the southeastern town of Tsarevo, cited by FOCUS – Burgas Radio. Both vets and forestry Read More »

April 23, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, Agriculture, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Dutch Government Set To Reconsider Restrictions On Bird Flu Study

(NPR blog) A Dutch virologist is considering his full range of legal options if his government refuses to lift the restrictions it has put on his controversial bird flu research, and matters could quickly come to a head after a meeting next Monday that will be attended by U. S. observers. The meeting will come Read More »

April 23, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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BREAKING: US Accepts NSABB Recommendation to Publish H5N1 Flu Papers

(Science AAAS) The United States government has formally accepted a recommendation from a biosecurity advisory board to publish two controversial studies of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, moving the pair of papers another step closer to publication. The announcement came today in a statement from Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, Read More »

April 23, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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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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US biosecurity board calls for global research guidelines

(New Scientist) The top US biosecurity committee has called for global guidelines for research on dangerous flu strains. The move comes just weeks after the committee revised earlier advice about which details of two controversial flu studies could be published. But information released this week shows that the committee was divided over the issue, strengthening Read More »