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A Flawed Flu Papers Process?

(Science Now) Now one of the six dissenters, influenza epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has written a sharp critique of the meeting that led to the decision. In a letter sent yesterday to Amy Patterson, an official at the U.S. National Institutes of Health whose office oversees NSABB, Osterholm charged  Read More »

Bias accusation rattles US biosecurity board

(Nature.com) A closed meeting, convened last month by the US Government to decide the fate of two controversial unpublished papers on the H5N1 avian influenza virus was stacked in favour of their full publication, a participant now says. Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis,  Read More »

Can the US Afford a New Biodefense Lab?

(Science Now) The United States faces a stark choice between funding a new state-of-the-art laboratory for agricultural biodefense and paying for ongoing research on the topic, according to the government’s top biosecurity research official. “We are hard up against it now; you can’t do research without modern facilities, but the money for modern facilities comes  Read More »

Committee holding hearing on Kan. biosecurity lab

(Wall Street Journal) TOPEKA, Kan. — Department of Homeland Security officials told a panel of researchers on Friday that a new animal research lab slated to be built in Kansas still is needed, even though federal funds are scarce. Undersecretary Tara O’Toole said during a public hearing in Washington that the threat of existing and  Read More »

Carnage Interrupted: An Analysis of Fifteen Terrorist Plots Against Public Surface Transportation

(Mineta Transportation Institute) This report examines 13 terrorist plots against public surface transportation that were uncovered and foiled by authorities between 1997 and 2010 and two failed attempts to carry out attacks. Certainly, this is not the total universe of foiled or failed terrorist plots in these years, but they were selected on the basis  Read More »

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