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CPDO comes to 3-m standstill as Rapid Response Teams cull poultry birds – fnbnews.com

CPDO comes to 3-m standstill as Rapid Response Teams cull poultry birdsfnbnews.comFollowing the avian or bird flu or H5N1 which affected the poultry birds at the 90 acre campus of CPDO located on the outskirts of Bengaluru, the Union government sent in Rapid Response Teams to dispose off the birds. The culling operation was carried  Read More »

USAID increases funding for emerging disease threats

(Vaccine News) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations announced on Monday that the United States Agency for International Development contributed more than $20 million in new funding to fight emerging disease threats. The funds will support the partnership between the U.S. and the FAO against H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza and other  Read More »

Biosecurity: ashes to ashes

(The Guardian) The last few days offer a salutary reminder of how a species that can seem to control everything is not in control of some very important things. There isn’t much equivalence between the towering force of super-storm Sandy and the insidious progress of Chalara fraxinea, the fungal disease that threatens the UK’s third  Read More »

Scientists Develop Hendra Virus Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) Researchers from Australia and the United States have readied a vaccine against a disease that can be transmitted from horses to humans and is considered a potential bioterrorism tool, the Australian newspaper reported on Thursday. Development of Equivac will allow for vaccinations of horses across the Australia, where the Hendra virus was  Read More »

Examining the Biology Behind the Popular Culture Phenomenon

(Daily Nexus) Unless you’ve been under a rock, you should be familiar with the zombie apocalypse hype these past few years. Shows and movies such as “The Walking Dead” and I Am Legend depict flesh-eating monster endemics in the modern world. I rarely give in to shows about zombies because I doubt that a decomposing  Read More »

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