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H5N1 bird flu reported in NW China

(China Daily) BEIJING – China’s Northwestern Ningxia Hui autonomous region has reported an outbreak of the highly epidemic H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Wednesday. More than 23,000 chickens at several farms in a village of Touying town in the city of Guyuan in Ningxia showed symptoms of suspected Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agriculture, and Public Health
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The trouble with American military laboratories

(Democracy & Freedom Watch) TBILISI – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem? According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international network of infectious disease surveillance laboratories whose mission Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Taking Measure of Countermeasures: Protecting the Protectors

(defpro) Good afternoon, Chairman Bilirakis, Ranking Member Richardson and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. It is an honor to testify before you today on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts regarding medical countermeasures (MCM) for first responders. As you are aware, the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) provides health and medical expertise in support Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Dengue Fever in the United States

(CDC Podcast) Dr. Amesh Adalja, an associate at the Center for Biosecurity and clinical assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School, of Medicine, discusses dengue fever outbreaks in the United States. Over the last decade, three dengue fever outbreaks occurred in the U.S. In response to these outbreaks various public health interventions were employed. Read More »

April 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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IAFC Testifies Before Congress on Medical Countermeasures

(FireEngineering.com) Today, Chief Al Gillespie, IAFC president and chairman of the board, testified before members of Congress urging the U.S. government to take action in including first responders and their families in medical countermeasures required in the event of a pandemic or biological attack. The hearings, held by the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Read More »