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Biosecurity Board Assessing Studies on Altered Bird Flu Virus

(GSN Daily News) A U.S. biosecurity panel is assessing whether two separate studies that altered the avian flu virus should be published given concerns that such information could be abused by terrorists to create a biological weapon, the Science Insider reported last week. Dutch molecular virology scientist Ron Fouchier submitted to the U.S. journal Science  Read More »

Sheep ID trace a failure

(Weekly Times Now) THE Australian sheep industry’s identification scheme has been heavily criticised in a major new report. Prepared by former National Water Commissioner Ken Matthews on Australia’s ability to cope with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, the report was last week made public after being kept secret by Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig.  Read More »

£100M+ Investment to Protect UK Food Security

(ThePigSite.com) UK – Major sectors of the UK economy and food chain have received a significant boost following the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of £80M of capital investment for the further development of research facilities at BBSRC’s Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright. The funding will be made available to BBSRC and,  Read More »

US To Pay $2.5M In Anthrax Death

(NPR) AP MIAMI — More than a decade after tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the U.S. government has agreed to pay his widow and family $2.5 million to settle their lawsuit, according to documents released Tuesday. Stevens, 63, died on Oct. 5, 2001, when a letter  Read More »

Drill to simulate biological terror attack

(Ynetnews) Quarantining entire regions and distributing vaccinations are just some of the possible strategies the state could implement should an agent the likes of anthrax or chicken pox be unleased on Israel’s population. On Thursday, the second day of the …

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