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Behold The Forbidden Flu: A Loom Explainer

(Discover Magazine) Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a very important part of a very special flu virus. It may look like an ordinary protein, but in fact it’s been at the center of a blazing debate about whether our increasing power to experiment on life could lead to a disaster. Not that long ago,  Read More »

National Biosecurity Training Program Participation Exceeds Expectations

(Farmscape Online) The Canadian Swine Health Board’s biosecurity coordinator for Manitoba reports participation among the province’s pork producers in the National Biosecurity Training Program has exceeded all expectations. The National Biosecurity Training Program is based on the Canadian Swine Health Board’s National Biosecurity Standard and was developed to familiarize Canada’s pork producers with the principles  Read More »

Lab Security Standards Raise Chances of Mutant-Bird-Flu Catastrophe

(Wired News) Fears that bioterrorists could learn from controversial experiments that make H5N1 avian influenza more virulent have overshadowed a more pressing danger: accidental releases, laboratory infections and disgruntled workers. Dozens of all-too-human mistakes have occurred in just the last decade inside high-security laboratories, and many experts say new H5N1 flu strains engineered to infect  Read More »

One H5N1 Paper Finally Goes to Press; Second Greenlighted

(Science Now) They have been called the most famous papers that were never published. But now, one of two controversial studies that shows how to make H5N1 avian influenza more transmissible in mammals is up on Nature’s Web site for all the world to scrutinize—including, some worry, would-be bioterrorists who might use the information to  Read More »

“Operation Medicine Delivery” will test nation’s first comprehensive plan

(News Release) The scenario might be a widespread, life-threatening infectious disease outbreak. Or it might be a deliberate bioterror attack, targeting the entire metro area, using a deadly agent like anthrax. It could be any large scale health emergency that requires getting medicine to a very large number of people, very quickly. Public health officials  Read More »

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