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Outbreaks and Safety Concerns in Biodefense
Research Suggested Articles
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SARS's
Second Act, Playing in Laboratories "When the SARS epidemic
ended last July, experts were concerned that it
would come back from wherever it hid in nature.
But officials of the World Health Organization were
just as worried about a new epidemic emerging from
a SARS sample that escaped from one of the many
laboratories working with it. |
Loose
Monkey Teaches Biodefense Lab a Lesson on the
Hazards of Secrecy "Davis citizens were understandably angered when the story broke on Monday that a monkey had escaped from UCD's primate breeding facility, which rears animals for biodefense experiments. University officials had been hiding the story for ten days...UCD says the rhesus monkey...is disease-free; but citizens are asking the obvious questions: Why did UCD keep the escape secret?" |
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SARS
labs unsafe, says WHO: Scientific advisors call for international
regime to regulate pathogens Biocontainment "In a recent update on the lab error that led to escapes of the virus from the Institute of Virology in Beijing, WHO said the SARS virus is being held in some laboratories around the world at an "inappropriate containment level." |
Expert:
Labs are biggest SARS Threat "The recent case of a Taiwanese man who contracted SARS while working with the virus in a laboratory underscores the need for developing better safeguard procedures for scientific research with the disease..." |
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