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Lead Researchers Tout Value of Bird Flu Studies

(Global Security Newswire) The top scientists behind a pair of widely debated avian influenza studies touted the valuable data generated by their activities while insisting they produced no extremely lethal strain of the agent, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. A U.S. biodefense panel last week dropped an earlier call for the restriction of certain  Read More »

Syria’s WMD Threat

(The National Interest Online) Reports differ as to Syria’s biological-warfare capability. German and Israeli sources believe it possesses bacillus anthracis (which causes anthrax), botulinum toxin and ricin. American sources believe the capability is “probable.” In 1972, Syria signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, but it has never ratified it. The international community seems prepared  Read More »

Little consensus at scientific meeting on releasing results of risky research

(Washington Post) A two-day meeting here brought scientists no closer to resolving the question of whether there are any kinds of experiments whose results should be kept from the public. Arriving at an international consensus about whether scientific journals should occasionally publish censored versions of papers because the full ones might prove useful to terrorists  Read More »

Dangerous flu mutations revealed

(Nature News Blog) Two scientists recently hit the headlines when they created mutant strains of H5N1 influenza, which can spread between mammals. But although Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, spoke publicly to explain and defend the work, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,  Read More »

North American countries join forces to prepare for pandemics

(HHS News) A new North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza supports a faster and more coordinated response to influenza pandemics in North America. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released the plan jointly this week during the North American Leaders Summit as a way to enhance  Read More »

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