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Biosafety experts comment on reported CDC lab problems

(CIDRAP) News reports about possible airflow problems at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab in Atlanta are fueling perceptions that the agency isn’t following its own rules, but the reported conditions at the lab don’t appear to have posed a public health threat, according to some expert Read More »

July 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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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 »

July 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, South Asia, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Biosafety experts comment on reported CDC lab problems

(CIDRAP News) – News reports about possible airflow problems at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab in Atlanta are fueling perceptions that the agency isn’t following its own rules, but the reported conditions at the lab don’t appear to have posed a public health threat, according to Read More »

July 5, 2012
| Filed under North America and Policy & Initiatives
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DA-CAR reiterates guidelines for FMD prevention

(Philippine Information Agency) BAGUIO CITY, July 2 – The Department of Agriculture (DA) Cordillera has reiterated the guidelines for the prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) to help maintain the status of the country as free from the said disease. According the DA regional executive director Marilyn V. Sta Catalina, these guidelines cover the shipment of Read More »

July 3, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Rs265.7m okayed for dengue fight

(The Nation) KARACHI – A report of Economic Survey of Pakistan 2011-12 has mentioned that heavy monsoon rains in Punjab provided ideal conditions for dengue-bearing mosquitoes to thrive in stagnant water in 2011. “In Pakistan, the outbreak of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) was first reported in Karachi in 1994, followed by outbreaks in 2005, 2008, Read More »