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Bird Flu Studies Mired In Export Control Law Limbo

(NPR – Audio) Scientists who created mutant forms of bird flu want to see their research published, and an influential advisory committee recently gave them the green light after a debate that lasted for months. But one of the manuscripts is now being blocked from publication because of Dutch legal controls on the export of Read More »

April 11, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Export controls still blocking publication of Fouchier’s H5N1 study

(CIDRAP) Dutch export controls remain an obstacle to the publication of a study by Ron Fouchier, PhD, and colleagues on lab-modified, mammalian-transmissible H5N1 viruses, according to a National Public Radio (NPR) report today. A US government biosecurity committee recently approved full publication of Fouchier’s study describing H5N1 viruses that can spread among ferrets, as well Read More »

April 11, 2012
| Filed under North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Russia’s Emerging Global Health Leadership

(Center for Strategic and International Studies) After nearly a decade of dipping its toes in the waters of international development assistance (IDA), Russia appears ready in 2012 to reconfigure its institutional apparatus for global aid—perhaps as a prelude to emergence as a more serious presence and partner on the IDA landscape.

April 10, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Public Health
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Ebola expert to give presentation on virus in Hamilton

(The Missoulian) In the summer of 1976, van der Groen was a 33-year-old biochemist and research assistant at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium. Reports of an unknown infectious disease led him and a team of scientists to the central African nation of Zaire, now named the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Near the Read More »

April 9, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, Public Health, and Research
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India may become world’s top beef exporter by 2013: USDA

(Hindu Business Line) However, the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in cattle could pose problems in the country’s march towards the world’s leading buffalo meat supplier, USDA said. “While there are rumours of new market openings in Eastern Europe and Indonesia, no known trade has yet occurred in these regions and India’s FMD status Read More »