Another NIH fubar? 300 vials labeled influenza, dengue found at government lab

On: July 17, 2014

[I]t’s beginning to look like the Three Stooges are in charge of deadly pathogen storage at the National Institutes of Health these days. The lab that is supposed to be super safe and super secure has again revealed a major mistake. Curiously, the report at Fox reveals that it’s theContinue Reading

Replacing the Entire US Biosecurity Board Won’t Make Us Safer

By: Sharon

On: July 16, 2014

In: Uncategorized

[J]ust what the heck is going on with the NIH and the CDC lately? These two agencies are supposed to make you and me feel safer, right? But if you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that the CDC ‘accidentally’ contaminated your everyday variety of influenza (H9N2) with H5N1Continue Reading

Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts | NYTimes.com

By: Sharon

On: May 9, 2014

In: Emerging Diseases

[W]hat? 20,000 mystery deaths in a decade? Where is the media attention to this one? Yes, it’s in today’s online version of the NYT, and you can find a few other mentions in the past few years, but for the most part this story is vastly under-reported. If this wereContinue Reading

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