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Latest NBAF review due out Friday

(Dodge City Daily Globe) The National Research Council is scheduled to release a new report that assesses three options for building a new biosecurity lab in Kansas. The review set for release Friday was requested by the Department of Homeland Security as it continues the process for building the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility on  Read More »

Revised Estimate Increases Global H1N1 Mortality Figures by Factor of 15

(Center for Biosecurity of UPMC) The previously reported number of deaths due to laboratory-confirmed H1N1 (18,500) during the 16 months of the 2009-2010 pandemic (April 2009-August 2010)1 is widely acknowledged to be a gross underestimate because most flu patients were not tested. Evidence of this lack of data is that less than 12% of laboratory-confirmed  Read More »

The biodefender that cries wolf

(Los Angeles Times) DENVER — As Chris Lindley drove to work that morning in August 2008, a call set his heart pounding. The Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver, and Barack Obama was to accept his party’s presidential nomination before a crowd of 80,000 people that night. The phone call was from one  Read More »

Cattle or People?

(Huffington Post) The National Research Council has issued a report identifying “a number of deficiencies” in an “updated risk assessment” done by the federal government for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) it wants to build in Kansas to replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center just off Long Island, New York. U.S.  Read More »

China culls 150000 chickens in bird flu outbreak

(Telegraph) China has culled more than 150,000 chickens in its remote northwestern region of Xinjiang following an outbreak of bird flu, officials said. The outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu initially killed 1,600 chickens and sickened about 5,500, the agriculture ministry said. In an effort to contain the disease, agricultural authorities quarantined the  Read More »

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