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North American countries join forces to prepare for pandemics

(HHS News) A new North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza supports a faster and more coordinated response to influenza pandemics in North America. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released the plan jointly this week during the North American Leaders Summit as a way to enhance  Read More »

London prepares for Olympian disease-monitoring task

(Nature News Blog) As the world’s athletes limber up for the forthcoming Olympic games in London, infectious-disease experts are preparing for their own trials. Their competition is with the diseases that millions of athletes, officials, media and spectators bring with them as they converge from across the globe on the UK capital. There is already  Read More »

H5N1 mutations, other details unveiled at H5N1 meeting

(CIDRAP News) Kawaoka also gave a detailed view of his lab’s biosecurity measures, which are based on US government regulations and adhere to agricultural biosafety level 3 (BSL-3). He said the term “enhanced BSL-3” is nonspecific, and that more efforts are needed …

Major players weigh implications of NSABB H5N1 reversal

(CIDRAP News) A federal advisory board’s reversal on publishing two controversial H5N1 studies is poised to shift discussions on the topic that continue in London this week, as more participants in the debate weigh in following the Mar 30 …

Anthrax Kits in 114 Million US Homes Gets FDA Scrutiny

(BusinessWeek) Making anthrax-antidote kits available to the 114 million households in the US in case of a bioterrorism attack may lead to misuse of the medicines and stir up public fears, regulatory advisers said.

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