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FOOD SAFETY NEWS SCAN: Pet treat and food recalls, profile of milk-borne outbreaks

Mar 9, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death, pandemic drugs in drinking water, peramivir during H1N1, mass vaccine dispensing, HIV and H1N1 vaccine, anti-diarrhea drug

Mar 2, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Bacteria on docs' coats; foot-and-mouth outbreak; dengue, pneumococcal vaccine efforts

 

FDA finds lapses at 12 egg farms in initial inspections

(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says its first round of inspections under new egg safety rules found that 12 of the 35 large farms inspected had problems that required some kind of corrective action, most of them having to do with record-keeping.

Robert Roos
 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Egypt's H5N1 challenges, cross-protective vaccine, H1N1 spread in schools, rapid flu screening, EU OKs FluMist

Feb 1, 2011

 

Three Asian countries battle H5N1 outbreaks

(CIDRAP News) – Animal health officials in Japan, South Korea, and Myanmar reported fresh outbreaks of the H5N1 avian influenza in poultry, according to media reports and reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

Lisa Schnirring
 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Effects of school closure, secondary H1N1 infection, liquid Tamiflu shortage, H5N1 in Hong Kong

Jan 21, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Smallpox samples, Korea's ag outbreaks, US chikungunya, Salmonella outbreak, food-safety funding, anti-vaccine messaging

Jan 18, 2011

 

Expert says US should agree to destroy smallpox virus stocks

(CIDRAP News) – Given the potential for a bitter diplomatic battle at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May, an expert on smallpox-related policy is recommending that the United States agree to the destruction of the remaining stocks of smallpox virus—or at least be prepared to destroy all but a remnant of them.

Robert Roos
 

HHS names 6 new members to biodefense advisory panel

(CIDRAP News) – Six new members have been appointed to the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), the expert committee that advises the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on preparing for bioterrroism and other public health emergencies, HHS officials announced yesterday.

The six new members replace six whose 3-year terms ended Dec 31, HHS said in a news release.

The new members are:

Robert Roos
 

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