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...report from Britain's Health and Safety Executive failed to determine how the virus may have escaped from the site. Officials spent the last three days scrutinizing Merial Animal Health, the British arm of U.S.-based Merial Ltd, which recently produced 10,000 litres of foot-and-mouth virus culture during vaccine preparation. There have been media speculation that recent flooding in the U.K. helped spread the virus from the Merial lab, but the report said waterborne release had not been confirmed and that release via contamination of a lab employee or visitor remains a "real possibility" (the foot...
...Biosecurity officials spent Monday scouring the high-security site, which is shared by the government's Institute for Animal Health and a private pharmaceutical company, Merial Animal Health, the British arm of U.S.-based Merial Ltd. Reports in British media said investigators were focusing on the Merial facility because it has recently done research on the 01 BFS67 strain, in an effort to determine whether human error or a breach in biosecurity - such as a faulty ventilation system - could be to blame...
...freedom. While filming a scene in which Bourne had just been shot, Damon was supposed to touch his shoulder, look at the blood on his hand and keep moving. "We were losing the light, and I was walking through this little tunnel," Damon remembers. He tried to position his arm in a way that would help the cameraman get his shot in time. "I didn't want to hold my bloody fingers below his frame. Paul came running over and said, 'No, no, no, absolutely not! Do it as you would naturally do it! Even if we miss...
...Saddam Hussein regime. "We are sure of our victory now, so we decided to meet." Samarai and others described a new kind of resistance activity - a more deliberate and organized coordination between the political and military elements of the insurgency, as they look past guns to governance. "One arm now knows what the other is doing," he said...
...advantage? Before putting up its offer last week, RBS looked like it was playing catch up. Its earlier bid for ABN was conditional on it getting LaSalle, ABN's U.S. arm, as part of any deal. But a Dutch court earlier this month denied ABN shareholders the right to vote on its plan to sell LaSalle to Bank of America...