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Kansas bioterror lab: A money pit or a gold mine?

(Kansas City Star) There’s a whole lot of uncertainly in the middle of Kansas. Make that hole — as in the gaping construction site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan. The cost of the federally funded animal-research facility — NBAF for short, commonly pronounced “En-baf”  Read More »

Mutant-flu researcher backs down on plan to publish without permission

(Nature.com) Ron Fouchier, a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, whose work on the H5N1 avian flu virus has been embroiled in controversy, told Nature this afternoon that he has now reluctantly agreed to apply for an export permit to submit his work to the journal Science. Fouchier’s paper is one  Read More »

Navy taking steps against bio weapons

(The Virginian-Pilot) Consider a hypothetical scenario: A foreign enemy launches a biological attack against a U.S. Navy ship passing close to shore, and no one on board sees it happen. How long before the crew knows something is wrong? A decade ago, the answer would have been when people started getting sick, and as recently  Read More »

Potential vaccine carrier may give stockpiling efforts a shot in the arm

(ScienceDaily) A researcher at the Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC)/San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) presented findings this week on a new potential vaccine carrier that he hopes will extend the shelf life of and aid in the stockpiling of critical vaccines. U.S. Army Maj. Jean M. Muderhwa presented findings April 22, at the Experimental  Read More »

Go Ahead With Bird Flu Studies, HHS and NIH Say

(Global Security Newswire) WASHINGTON – Federal health officials on Friday endorsed a decision by their advisers to let publication of two controversial bird flu studies go ahead, saying the information was  vital to preparing the world against a possible deadly pandemic. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity had asked researchers in December to hold  Read More »

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