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Getty ImagesCDC receives H7N9 virus isolateTaipei TimesThe center said the virus isolate was delivered in accordance with international biosafety regulations, and the delivery was the first official cross-strait exchange of a pathogenic agent. The virus sample received is A/Anhui/1/2013, so named because …H7N9 wild virus strain from China be used for research: CDCFocus Taiwan News  Read More »

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) National Institutes of Health scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the drug combination could be used to treat patients infected with the  Read More »

Wall Street JournalMan Is Arrested in Ricin ScareWall Street JournalLetters addressed to President Obama and the U.S. Senate have, in preliminary results, tested positive for ricin. How does ricin kill people? Where does ricin come from? Who has used it as a weapon? WSJ's Jason Bellini has "The Short Answer." Photo …

By Billy House and Stacy Kaper National Journal WASHINGTON — Amid an already edgy state of alert in Washington following Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that they were also investigating whether an envelope containing the poison ricin was intended to harm Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). “The U.S. Capitol  Read More »