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Virus in one controversial H5N1 study wasn’t lethal

(CIDRAP News) – Breaking a prolonged silence, the author of one of two controversial studies dealing with mutant H5N1 viruses said today that the virus his team created went airborne to spread among ferrets, but it didn’t kill them.

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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RI to produce bird-flu vaccine by 2013

(Jakarta Post) Indonesia is aiming to manufacture its first, locally produced vaccine to combat the H5N1 avian influenza virus by 2013, with state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Biofarma working to prepare its facilities for developing the vaccine for mass production, a minister says. Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said that Biofarma was currently working on an Read More »

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Researchers show how viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly

(National Science Foundation) Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Science.

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, and Research
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Newly engineered highly transmissible H5N1 strain ignites controversy about balancing scientific discovery and public safety

(American College of Physicians) Below is information about two articles being published early online www.annals.org, the Annals of Internal Medicine website. The information is not intended to substitute for the full articles as sources of information. Full text will be posted at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26. Annals of Internal Medicine attribution is required Read More »

January 27, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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NEIDL Goes Public

(BU Today) Murphy, a School of Medicine professor of medicine and microbiology, researches the ways that bacterial protein toxins get into cells. Corley, a MED professor and chair of microbiology, investigates immune responses to viruses. But much of their time recently has been spent leading visitors through the many chambers of the National Emerging Infectious Read More »