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London prepares for Olympian disease-monitoring task

(Nature News Blog) As the world’s athletes limber up for the forthcoming Olympic games in London, infectious-disease experts are preparing for their own trials. Their competition is with the diseases that millions of athletes, officials, media and spectators bring with them as they converge from across the globe on the UK capital. There is already  Read More »

H5N1 mutations, other details unveiled at H5N1 meeting

(CIDRAP News) Kawaoka also gave a detailed view of his lab’s biosecurity measures, which are based on US government regulations and adhere to agricultural biosafety level 3 (BSL-3). He said the term “enhanced BSL-3” is nonspecific, and that more efforts are needed …

Major players weigh implications of NSABB H5N1 reversal

(CIDRAP News) A federal advisory board’s reversal on publishing two controversial H5N1 studies is poised to shift discussions on the topic that continue in London this week, as more participants in the debate weigh in following the Mar 30 …

H5N1 bird flu research to be published in full

(BBC News) The author of controversial research on the H5N1 bird flu virus is delighted his work looks finally set to be published. Prof Ron Fouchier, from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, said it was the only way to advance scientific knowledge and …

When Superbugs Attack

(Foreign Affairs) Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India’s Medical Sector. Some of modern medicine’s most heralded interventions — from routine surgeries to organ transplants and cancer treatments — may soon be too dangerous. The viability of these procedures hinges on physicians’ ability to use antibiotics to swiftly vanquish any bacterial infections that might arise in the  Read More »

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