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NEWS SCAN: Plot to poison food, H1N1 hot spots, severe H1N1 in kids, holiday cholera advisory, E coli cheese findings

Dec 21, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Cheese recall over E coli, H5N1 in Egypt, adjuvanted flu vaccine, UK flu worries, lab biosecurity in India

Dec 17, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Ag defense site, Salmonella outbreak over, cholera update, H1N1 in UK

Dec 13, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Food safety bill maneuver, food defense plans, plague in Uganda, smallpox DNA vaccine

Dec 8, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Biosecurity in Africa, E coli cases up, Euro H1N1 lessons, Australian disease response, polio risk, antibiotic resistance

Nov 15, 2010

 

NRC sees gaps in DHS risk study for ag biosecurity lab

(CIDRAP News) – A federal assessment of the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), a biosafety-level (BSL) 4 lab to be built on the Kansas State University (KSU) campus in Manhattan, Kan., is incomplete and should be expanded and updated, the National Research Council (NRC) said in a report today.

Lisa Schnirring
 

GAO: US needs better program to keep animal diseases out

(CIDRAP News) – The safeguards designed to keep diseased animals from being imported into the United States have sizable holes, and the federal agencies that oversee those safeguards need to coordinate better to improve them, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 vaccine lessons, H1N1 immune response, cholera update, gene sharing, virus-fighting finding

Nov 3, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: HCW flu vaccination, H1N1 and cancer, H1N1 mutation, new adenovirus

Oct 25, 2010

 

One egg farm to resume production; Salmonella case count grows

(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized one Iowa company tied to a recent nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) outbreak to resume egg production for the retail market, while officially warning the other company of possible enforcement action if it doesn't correct problems inspectors found in August.

Robert Roos
 

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