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Could Bird Flu Be a Weapon? Dutch Law May Keep Flu Research Bottled Up

(Discover Magazine) But in a new, international twist, one of the papers is encountering another obstacle: NPR reported that the Netherlands-based team behind one of the studies is being stifled by Dutch law, which limits the export of technology that could be weaponized. So now there are two main questions about whether the flu research  Read More »

Scientist Blasts Feds on Bird Flu Briefing

(Global Security Newswire) A member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has suggested that a federal agency rigged the panel’s deliberations on two avian influenza virus studies last month so that the group would endorse unredacted release of the research, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Friday. The board  Read More »

Expert slams process for releasing bird flu studies; ‘kicked can down the road’

(Winnipeg Free Press) A member of the U.S. biosecurity panel that recently lifted its objections to the publication of two controversial bird flu studies has slammed the way the decision was reached, saying the meeting held to reconsider the issue was “one-sided” and designed to produce the eventual outcome. Michael Osterholm, a flu expert and  Read More »

The Effect of Anti-lethal Toxin Antibodies on Anthrax Mortality

(Clinicians’ Biosecurity News) The traditional mortality from inhalational anthrax at the beginning of the 20th century was often reported as 90%, but it was 45% following the 2001 anthrax letter attacks. This marked reduction in mortality likely occurred because of improvements in the care of critically ill patients. That a high mortality rate persists despite  Read More »

NSABB member says officials stacked deck for board’s H5N1 decision

(CIDRAP News) In a leaked letter, a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has charged that federal officials planned the board’s meeting in late March in a way designed to lead the board to reverse its earlier recommendation against full publication of two studies describing lab-modified H5N1 viruses with increased transmissibility  Read More »

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