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Focus on Foot and Mouth Disease

(TopNewsArabEmirates) Recent anthrax outbreak in northern New South Wales has shown the significance of biosecurity, say veterinarians. According to them, immediate response is required to avert any situation like this. An instance that highlights the importance of a speedy response includes alertness of farmers after thirty-seven cattle died of anthrax. These cattle died near Moree. Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Public Health
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Botulism Antitoxin Wins FDA Approval

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the first drug for counteracting every form of a paralytic, food-borne toxin long feared as an attractive tool to would-be bioterrorists. Botulinum toxin comes from a common form of bacteria and results in around 100 U.S. hospitalizations each year through tainted food and localized infections, according Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Sequencing tracks animal-to-human transmission of bacterial pathogens

(EurekAlert) Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to reveal if drug-resistant bacteria are transmitted from animals to humans in two disease outbreaks that occurred on different farms in Denmark. The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, confirm animal-to-human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a disease-causing bacterium that carries the recently described Read More »

March 25, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Missing virus vial raises concerns at UTMB facility

(HoustonChronicle) A vial containing a potentially harmful virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, officials said. The missing vial, which contains less than a quarter of a teaspoon of an infectious disease, had been stored in a locked freezer designed to handle biological material safely in the Galveston Read More »

March 25, 2013
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Bangkok officials warn of dengue fever

(TheGlobalDispatch) Dengue fever is on the rise in the Thailand capital and the spread of the mosquito borne viral disease may be serious this year, warns the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), according to a National News Bureau of Thailand report today. The BMA says dengue is rising in the city with over 2,000 cases reported Read More »