Biosecurity
Biosecurity involves preventing and minimizing intentional harm to people, crops, livestock, wildlife and ecosystems caused by biological agents that are either naturally occurring or huma...
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A vaccine laboratory at the center of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease said Monday it had found no evidence of a breach in biosecurity, as government officials assessed links between the facil...
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A Taiwanese scientist who improperly obtained bacteria that could be used in a biochemical weapon was uncovered because the island's biosafety measures are reliable, a senior health official said T...
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Biosafety experts scoured a high-security animal laboratory Sunday in rural England to determine how a strain of the foot-and-mouth virus may have escaped from a facility dedicated to eliminating t...
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Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said Tuesday tests had confirmed a second foot-and-mouth outbreak in southern England as he awaited an initial report into biosecurity at a vaccine laboratory susp...
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The return of foot-and-mouth disease to Britain reawakened all-too-fresh memories of culled cattle burning in massive pyres.Within 24 hours, veterinary experts matched the strain to one used by a l...
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Foot-and-mouth disease is so easily spread _ and such a threat to farm economies _ that the United States will not allow researchers to work with the virus on the mainland. But in Britain, a lab ma...
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Foot-and-mouth disease is so highly contagious _ and such a threat to farm economies _ that the United States won't allow researchers to work with the virus on the mainland. But in Britain, a lab m...
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Foot-and-mouth disease is so highly contagious _ and such a threat to farm economies _ that the United States won't allow researchers to work with the virus on the mainland. But in Britain, a lab m...
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Investigators have determined a pipe at a research laboratory in southern England caused last month's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.Britain's...
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Investigators have determined a pipe at a research laboratory in southern England caused last month's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.Britain's...
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Biosecurity
UK Foot-and-mouth disease lab says it has found no biosecurity breach
