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(CIDRAP News) – Animal health groups today commended the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) voluntary approach to reducing the growth-promotion uses of antibiotics in farm animals but voiced some concern that the policy may hurt animal health and lead to higher meat prices.
Apr 17, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Dutch flu researcher Ron Fouchier, PhD, said he intends to submit a revised manuscript of his controversial mutated-H5N1 study to Science without applying for an export permit, according to a Nature News story today.
Apr 16 2012
(CIDRAP News) – A probe of illness clusters and trace-back investigations have linked a multistate Salmonella Bareilly outbreak to a California company's raw ground tuna that was used by restaurants and grocery stores to make sushi, according to US officials.
(CIDRAP News) – The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) says in a new report that one of two controversial H5N1 avian flu studies needs some clarifications before publication and that some additional information the board heard from the lead author should not be included in the paper.
(CIDRAP News) – US flu activity is still hanging on, though some indicators show signs of declining, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Apr 13, 2012
(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 in mammals.
Apr 12, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released more details about a new H3N2 variant (H3N2v) case in Utah, along with results of a serum study that suggests children younger than 10 are likely to be at greatest risk for contracting the novel virus.
(CIDRAP News) – Stronger public health funding could stem rising spending on healthcare and not only improve the nation's health but also its economic standing, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report said yesterday.
Apr 11, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Saying a voluntary strategy is the best way to reduce the agricultural use of antibiotics and preserve the drugs' medical usefulness, the US Food and Drug Administration today released draft guidance designed to steer animal-drug producers, veterinarians, and farmers in that direction.
(CIDRAP News) – Dutch export controls remain an obstacle to the publication of a study by Ron Fouchier, PhD, and colleagues on lab-modified, mammalian-transmissible H5N1 viruses, according to a National Public Radio (NPR) report today.
Apr 10, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Reports of sporadic 2009 H1N1 infections and a few deaths in parts of India have sparked high-profile media coverage of the disease in the country, catching the attention of public health officials and vaccine makers, according to several media reports.
Apr 9, 2012
