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Feb 23, 2018

Feb 23, 2018

News Scan for Feb 23, 2018

Japan clears new flu drug
UK Zika vaccine project
Avian flu epi report
Yellow fever in Brazil
Public health readiness

Oct 07, 2014

Oct 07, 2014

News Scan for Oct 07, 2014

EV-D68 cases top 600
Dengue in India, China
Two MERS cases in Saudi Arabia
Flu ebbs in Southern Hemisphere

Oct 12, 2006

Oct 12, 2006

FAO launches disease crisis center

Oct 12, 2006

(CIDRAP News) – To speed emergency responses to avian influenza and other animal and plant diseases, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) inaugurated a new crisis management center (CMC) at its Rome headquarters today.

Apr 13, 2005

Apr 13, 2005

Pandemic flu virus from 1957 mistakenly sent to labs

Apr 13, 2005

(CIDRAP News) – The revelation that samples of the influenza virus that caused the flu pandemic of 1957-58 were inadvertently sent to thousands of laboratories has raised fears of a new pandemic and triggered an urgent effort to destroy the samples.

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