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World Health Organization Perspective on Implementation of International Health Regulations

(Emerging Infectious Diseases) In 2005, the International Health Regulations were adopted at the 58th World Health Assembly; in June 2007, they were entered into force for most countries. In 2012, the world is approaching a major 5-year milestone in the global commitment to ensure national capacities to identify, investigate, assess, and respond to public health  Read More »

Second of two blocked flu papers released

(Science News) A controversial research paper banned from publication in 2011 because it contained potentially dangerous information is now available for the world to see. The study, appearing in the June 22 Science, details experiments in which researchers in the Netherlands created a version of the H5N1 bird flu virus that can be passed through  Read More »

Bird Flu Paper Is Published After Debate

(New York Times) The more controversial of two papers describing how the lethal H5N1 bird flu could be made easier to spread was published Thursday, six months after a scientific advisory board suggested that the papers’ most potentially dangerous data be censored. The paper, by scientists at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, identified five  Read More »

Do not censor science in the name of biosecurity

(Nature.com) Security officials should not be concerned about the publication of mutant-flu research, says bio-weapons expert Tim Trevan. he recent controversy over research into mutated versions of the H5N1 flu virus has focused on biosecurity concerns. It is easy to get the impression that this debate has created a clear split between a scientific community  Read More »

Challenge 10: Transnational security threats – new research and converging strategies

(The Conversation) … Overlooked is Obama’s National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. Gregory Koblentz contends in International Affairs that Obama’s strategy is preventative; that its definition of biosecurity focuses on improving global health security (pandemics and disease prevention); and that intelligence and law enforcement personnel must work more closely with the life sciences and public  Read More »

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