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Paraguay emergency tackles crisis over cattle disease outbreak

(UPI.com) The outbreaks, mostly said to be spreading foot-and-mouth disease on farms but causing other health complications, began last year. Prevention and recovery has been slow and decimated local rural economies in many areas, published data indicated. …

January 10, 2012
| Filed under South America, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Anthrax found in 26 places

(Deccan Herald) CCMB confirms Palamur University students’ discovery in AP The enthusiasm of Palamur University students in the Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, 170 km from here, led to chance finding of deadly anthrax in ground water of more than 26 …

January 9, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, and Public Health
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An Engineered Doomsday

(New York Times) In the future, it is imperative that any such experiments be rigorously analyzed for potential dangers — preferably through an international review mechanism, but also by governmental funding agencies — before they are undertaken, not after the fact as is happening in this case. The most frightening research was done by scientists Read More »

January 9, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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State, area health officials stay on guard against viruses

(Sacramento Bee) The terrorist attacks and anthrax scare of 2001 gave them warning that they should plan for a sudden and fierce outbreak of disease, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 gave them practice. Yet there is no way to prevent an influenza pandemic from coming …

January 9, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Infectious disease lab under construction in Winnipeg

(Journal of Commerce) A vacant former laboratory building in Winnipeg’s inner city is being transformed into a state of the art infectious diseases research centre. Work is well underway on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) new J.C. Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre. The impetus for the new project is that the National Microbiology Read More »