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NEWS SCAN: Yellow fever in Sudan, UK coronavirus sequence, dengue in Cambodia, babesiosis spreading, BioWatch advice

Nov 13, 2012

 

HHS seeks comments on risks of H5N1 research

(CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials are inviting the public to weigh in on whether research on H5N1 avian influenza viruses, including strains modified in the lab to make them more transmissible, is risky enough to require new safety regulations and precautions.

Robert Roos
 

Changes in select agent rules concern public health labs

(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its list of potentially dangerous biological agents and toxins and the regulations covering them, and some of the changes have public health laboratories concerned.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Finicky flu antibody, flu-malaria co-infection, second Oregon plague case, Pakistan polio appeal

Sep 17, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Treating resistant TB, HHS public health funds, Colorado plague case

Aug 29, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Promising Ebola treatment, Salmonella outbreak tied to dog food, plague in New Mexico, anti-measles funding

 

NEWS SCAN: CDC lab safety questioned, flu vaccine effectiveness, Oregon plague infection, heroin-related anthrax death

Jun 13, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Funds to fight Ebola, plague; beef product plants closing; European measles pace slows

May 8, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Antibiotic cleared for plague, disease-carrying mosquitoes

Apr 30, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Airborne agent detectors, assay for anthrax and plague, HAI declines, EU measles cases

Oct 19, 2011

 

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