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President Khama Visits Namibia – AllAfrica.com

President Khama Visits NamibiaAllAfrica.comHe added that the ongoing cooperation in the field of animal health has enabled Namibia to combat outbreaks of lung sickness and foot-and-mouth disease, …and more »

Biodefense board takes on situational awareness, SNS tasks

(CIDRAP News) The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) during its meeting today took on two new tasks: to help guide federal efforts to improve situational awareness for potential public health emergencies and to help work out a strategy for improving and modernizing the management of the government’s Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). The requests came from  Read More »

The Evolution of Bird Flu, and the Race to Keep Up

(New York Times) On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead. The girl was the most recent documented victim of the influenza virus H5N1, a strain that has caused 606 known human  Read More »

Lawmakers want CDC info on bioterror lab

(USA TODAY) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering having U.S. Army scientists or another outside agency inspect its bioterror labs in the wake of a USA TODAY report this month. The agency plans to install safety equipment to address fire code violations from December 2010 that could trap workers in an emergency,  Read More »

Debate over H5N1 fatality rate flares again

(CIDRAP News) In the latest chapter in an ongoing debate over the true case-fatality ratio (CFR) for human H5N1 influenza infections, a group of leading flu experts has written a Science article rejecting the idea that millions of H5N1 infections have gone undetected. The debate was sparked by the controversy over publication of two studies  Read More »

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