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...promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. "The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail," says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since...
...least two dissatisfied former employees are suing. Richard Crosland, 55, a microbiologist suing for age discrimination after his 1997 layoff, worked primarily with botulinum toxin. "7-Eleven had better inventory controls than USAMRIID," he says. "The inventories were pretty much a joke. People often just filled them in using last month's forms. In my 11 years there, they never once asked for my botulinum toxin records. If I had taken it all home--which of course I didn't--no one would have known." How can he be sure? "After I was fired," says Crosland, "I made three trips...
...Arnold Howitt, Executive Director of the Taubman center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Dr. Stephen B. Calderwood, the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School (HMS) were both selected to be on Massachusetts newly created Bioterrorism Coordinating Council...
...government microbiologist, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press the letter sent to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy contained "billions" of anthrax spores. It generally takes 8,000 to 10,000 spores to infect someone with the inhaled form of the disease...
...thought. The way they were processed tells us volumes about the sophistication behind them and warns us that we need to expand the list of those at risk and the possibilities for what's next. An amateur working in his garage could not craft spores like these, but a microbiologist with a Ph.D. could, working out of a decent lab. Or a novice could buy the spores from a pro or someone with access to stocks in the U.S., Russia, Iraq and possibly elsewhere...