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Polio Can Be Beaten If U.S. Protects Worldwide Vaccination Efforts

Smallpox, which claimed 2 million lives in 1967, was stamped out by 1980 through an enormous vaccine campaign. Today the world has a shot at a second such triumph, this time over polio. It will take more than good medicine to succeed. …

Portugal on Norway killer’s hit list

The Portugal News – In a 1500 page manifesto, Mr. Breivik wrote about “decisive attack” campaigns with the use of anthrax against thousands of European citizens, including around 11000 people in Portugal, whom he described as “traitors”. “If we can establish a laboratory …

Risk assessment and measures to combat FMD is borne by the EFSA

Focus News – Because of pressure from Bulgaria, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) began work on drawing up assessments and measures to combat foot and mouth disease in Bulgaria. That is what Minister of Agriculture and Food Miroslav Naydenov said after

Government has drafted biological weapons bill: Najib

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama) — The government has drafted a biological weapons bill that will be a part of Malaysia’s legislative framework in ensuring the effective implementation of biological weapons convention, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. The prime minister said that the government was confident that the resulting legal framework would facilitate a  Read More »

Polio resurgence casts doubt on global eradication hopes

The Guardian – The hope of eradicating polio from the planet by the end of 2012 is in serious doubt, a monitoring committee is warning, because the virus is resurgent in places where it had disappeared and cases continue to rise in Pakistan, one of four countries where it is endemic. “It is on a  Read More »

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