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Avian influenza – situation in Indonesia

(WHO) The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has notified WHO of a new case of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus. The case is a 37 year old male from Yogyakarta province. He developed fever on 24 July 2012, was hospitalized on 27 July and died on 30 July. Epidemiological investigation on the case Read More »

August 10, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, International, and Public Health
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Ebola in Uganda: Should we worry in the US?

(Fox News) In Uganda’s western town of Kagadi, a drama is playing put that has both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on high alert. In the town, 53 cases of the dreaded hemorrhagic fever disease Ebola are suspected, with 16 deaths reported so far. Physicians from the French Read More »

August 10, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biosafety, International, and Public Health
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Book details Soviet plans to wage germ warfare with lethal ‘designer’ strains

(The Washington Post) In the Soviet playbook for all-out war with the United States, the wasting of U.S. cities by nuclear bombs was to be followed by something equally horrifying: waves of plagues to kill any survivors. Soviet scientists spent decades preparing for the second attack, concocting new kinds of biological weapons more lethal than Read More »

August 9, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Biological Weapons, International, and Research
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UN General Assembly resolution to tell Syria to lock down chemical weapons

(StarTribune) With the U.N. Security Council deadlocked over the Syrian crisis, the General Assembly prepared Friday to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes on the people of Aleppo and Damascus, and demand that the Assad regime keep its chemical and biological weapons warehoused and under strict control. The Assembly was overshadowed by Read More »

August 3, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, and International
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U.N. Draft Measure Warns Syria Over WMD

(Global Security Newswire) A U.N. General Assembly proposal due for consideration on Friday would urge Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave office while pressing his beleaguered government not to employ its unconventional armaments or hand them off to nongovernmental entities, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 31). Observers fear that escalating violence in the Read More »