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Genetically Altered Bird Flu Virus Not as Dangerous as Believed, Its Maker Asserts

(New York Times) The scientist who made a deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals, touching off public fears of a pandemic, said Wednesday that the virus he created was neither as contagious nor as dangerous as people had been led to believe. His new revelations have prompted the United States government to ask that  Read More »

Skin-Deep Immunity

(The Scientist) The smallpox vaccine was the first, and arguably most successful, vaccine ever put into practice, and it was scratched into the skin of individuals. With the invention of syringes and hypodermic needles, …

More on the H5N1 flu controversy

(Daily Herald) Our last two columns have indicated that researchers of H5N1 influenza virus (“bird flu”) have developed two new strains that are infective in mammals (ferrets) and may well be infective to humans as well. Because the technology involved in this work …

Op-Ed – Balancing Research Capability, Oversight, and Communication Post the H5N1 Controversy

Applied Biosafety, the journal of the American Biological Safety Association has provided the following pre-publication release of an editorial addressing the H5N1 publication controversy, with recommendations for strengthening biosafety and biosecurity at the institutional level. It will be published in print in Applied Biosafety, in Volume 17.1 March 31, 2012. Over the past months, numerous  Read More »

US disease agency in fiscal peril

(Nature.com) Core funding is also used to maintain the Strategic National Stockpile, a repository of drugs reserved for fighting epidemics and bioterrorism. If Obama’s plan is enacted, the CDC’s congressionally controlled funding will have fallen by roughly 20% …

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