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U.S. Eyes Bioterrorism Threat

(The Diplomat) I wrote last month about the importance the U.S. government should place on the threat of biological, and how domestic politics risked hampering progress on one of the United States most pressing security issues. Congress has previously acknowledged the seriousness of the threat, with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee reporting to Congress  Read More »

The Evolution of Bird Flu, and the Race to Keep Up

(New York Times) On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead. The girl was the most recent documented victim of the influenza virus H5N1, a strain that has caused 606 known human  Read More »

Long-Awaited Bird-Flu Study Shows It’s Still a Threat

(Global Security Newswire) WASHINGTON – Researchers published a batch of controversial studies on bird flu on Thursday, demonstrating that H5N1 is still dangerous to humanity and closing a chapter in a still-evolving debate over censoring scientific research. Commentaries questioned the wisdom of an unprecedented U.S. government request to delay the research, while experts debated whether  Read More »

DURC policy in flux in the wake of published H5N1 studies

(CIDRAP News) Though today’s publication of the second of two H5N1 transmissibility papers ends a waiting period, it doesn’t halt the uncertainty over what the 8 months of controversy means for future dual-use research of concern (DURC) and the status of a voluntary moratorium. Several experts addressed the topic in scientific journals today, including some  Read More »

Science: H5N1 Special Issue

(Science) The publication in this issue of the research paper airborne transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets, plus its newer companion The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host, marks the end of more than 8 months of widely reported controversy over whether some of the data now  Read More »

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