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NEWS SCAN: FDA fights ruling on ag antibiotics, poultry-inspection worries, TB vaccine grant, West Nile cost, H5N1 in live markets

 

Hong Kong H5 infection raises alert level

(CIDRAP News) – Hong Kong health officials raised the pandemic influenza response level from alert to serious today after one of the local hospitals confirmed an H5 infection in a boy from China's Guandong province.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Poultry inspection debate, more HFMD cases, open access to studies, Muslim-backed polio efforts

May 30, 2012

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Human flu in pigs, H1N1 vaccine response in dialysis patients

May 30, 2012

 

WHO hopes for meeting on dual-use research in late fall

(CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to hold a meeting late this fall to discuss "dual-use" research issues raised in the controversy over publication of two studies involving lab-modified H5N1 viruses with increased transmissibility, a WHO official said today.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Cambodia, designer flu proteins as antivirals, US West Nile cases, HFMD in Vietnam

 

NEWS SCAN: Smallpox vaccine extension, SARS vaccine grant, flu in bird handlers, tempeh outbreak grows, hantavirus surge, healthcare infections

May 24, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Dog flu virus in cats, public health cuts, disease mapping, second WHO term for Chan

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 vaccine and cross-protection, performance of new flu antiviral, malaria drug quality, malaria parasite insights

May 22, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Vietnam clears H5N1 project, H9N2 seroprevalence, tempeh Salmonella update

May 21, 2012

 

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