Showing posts with label Biosecurity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biosecurity. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

OIE Statement On Avian Influenza: A Call For Stronger Biosecurity

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# 10,066   In 2005 and 2006 we saw a huge expansion in the geographic range of the HPAI H5N1 virus – with the number of countries r...
Monday, May 04, 2015

H5N2: The Other Biosecurity Concern

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Credit Wikipedia   # 10,003   During summer months in North America, when we talk about influenza, we often talk about swine and s...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

USDA Avian Flu Biosecurity Videos

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  # 9877   Although Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have had to deal with highly pathogenic avian H5 viruses for the bette...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

An Avian Flu Assessment From The Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Credit FAO # 9431   Although the Chinese press can often be faulted for selective reporting, since the emergence of the H7N9 viru...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

CFIA Sets Bird Flu Control Zones In BC

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Credit Wikipedia – British Columbia   # 9423   Last night CFIA   (the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ) outlined new steps to con...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Fair Biosecurity & H3N2 In North Dakota Show Pigs

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  # 8901   County and State Fair season is underway in the northern states and will continue across the nation well into fall. One o...
Friday, July 11, 2014

CDC Announces Another Serious Biosecurity Incident

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 8826   It’s been a bad summer for US government labs, with two high profile bio...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Debate Over Gain Of Function Studies Continues

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID # 8793 ` Gain of Function’ research (aka GOF ) seeks to enhance the virulence , t...
Friday, November 29, 2013

BMC Medicine: Containing Laboratory Escape Of Pandemic Viruses

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 8017   While nobody really knows how the H1N1 influenza virus – absent in the h...