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New report finds that the US government is the largest funder of global health R&D worldwide

(Burness Communications) A new report that the United States government is the largest funder of global health research and development in the world, investing $12.7 billion over the past 10 years in the creation of new vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other products for neglected diseases of the developing world. That funding, according to the report,  Read More »

Dutch officials approve publication of Fouchier’s H5N1 study

(CIDRAP News) The Dutch government has granted virologist Ron Fouchier, PhD, an export license that allows him to submit his much-debated H5N1 transmissibility paper to Science, according to a ScienceInsider report published today. “Now we can move on,” Fouchier told ScienceInsider. His report details how he and his colleagues developed an H5N1 virus capable of  Read More »

Secret Briefing Helped Sway H5N1 Flu Papers Decision

(Science AAAS) A classified briefing from U.S. intelligence officials helped persuade a majority of members of a government advisory board that the benefits of publishing two controversial H5N1 avian influenza studies outweighed the risks, according to testimony presented yesterday at a U.S. Senate hearing. The late March briefing to the National Science Advisory Board for  Read More »

Dutch Government OK’s Publication of H5N1 Study

(Science AAAS) AMSTERDAM—The Dutch government has given virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC an export license for his controversial H5N1 transmissibility study, allowing Fouchier to send a revised manuscript of his paper to Science. The license “is in my inbox,” says Fouchier. “Now we can move on.” The decision by Henk Bleker, minister for agriculture  Read More »

The Netherlands grants export license for mutant flu work

(Nature.com) The Dutch government has agreed to grant an export license to allow Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical University in Rotterdam, to publish his work on H5N1 avian influenza in Science. Fouchier’s paper is one of two reporting the creation of forms of the H5N1 virus capable of spreading between mammals. The  Read More »

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