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Avian influenza – situation in Cambodia

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. The case was a 2 year-old male from Banteay Meanchey Province. He developed symptoms on 3 January 2012 and was admitted to hospital on 9 January 2012. He is on Read More »

January 17, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Public Health
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Don’t censor life-saving science

(Nature.com) As we prepared our results for publication, the US government convened the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), which advises the community about research using agents that pose threats to national security or public health. …

January 16, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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Chicago’s new bio-attack response facility

(Homeland Security NewsWire) Chicago is preparing itself for a biological attack with the recent unveiling of a new 40,000 square-foot, fourteen story state-of the-art medical decontamination facility. Last Friday the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response at the Rush University Medical Center opened its doors for the first time.

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Report Finds No Signs of Harmful Effects From Anthrax Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) A U.S. government study has turned up no indications of harmful psychological or physiological symptoms produced by the sole Food and Drug Administration-licensed anthrax vaccine over the first 30 months following its administration to Laboratory Response Network personnel, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Centers Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Bird flu and the future of biosecurity

(Nature) Amy Patterson, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Policy, which administers the NSABB, is taking the lead on the bird flu issue for the agency. Nature asks her what led to the NSABB’s decision and what will come out of it.