Biosecurity

Five years ago, Singer was a member of a panel of the U.S. National Academies and the Institute of Medicine that produced a report called Biosecurity, Globalization and the Future of the Life Sciences.

CBC | Top Stories News 2011

"There is no other disease that has come close to this through history in terms of killing people," said D.A. Henderson of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore, who led the WHO eradication program and has been pushing for decades to destroy the stocks.

Should last remaining known smallpox virus die? 2011

The scientists discovered mutations that made the H5N1 transmissible by air from ferret to ferret, according to Robert Webster, a virology expert at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who advised the government's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity on the recommendation.

Bird-Flu Data Spur Alarm Christopher Weaver 2011

Thomas Inglesby, the director of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh, said, "Government does not want to be in a position to be deciding who gets scientific information."

Bird-Flu Data Spur Alarm Christopher Weaver 2011

And it's a second bad idea for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it, Dr. Thomas Inglesby, the director and CEO of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh, told NPR.

Bird Flu: Scientists Develop New Strain Of H5N1, Avian Influenza, That Could Kill Millions 2011

Referring to the Fouchier experiments, Thomas Inglesby of the Center for for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center told "Morning Edition," "It's just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus."

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The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity asked the two journals to publish redacted versions of studies by two research groups that created forms of the H5N1 avian flu that could easily jump between ferrets - typically considered a sign the virus could spread quickly among humans.

US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies 2011

"There is no other disease that has come close to this through history in terms of killing people," said D.A. Henderson of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore, who led the WHO eradication program and has been pushing for decades to destroy the stocks.

Should last remaining known smallpox virus die? 2011

"You just can't provide 100% security," argued D.A. Henderson, head of the WHO's eradication campaign and a distinguished scholar at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh.

Verdict on Smallpox Cache Near Betsy McKay 2011

The study is currently being reviewed by the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a "federal advisory committee chartered to provide advice, guidance, and leadership regarding...biological research with legitimate scientific purpose that may be misused to pose a biologic threat to public health and/or national security."

Bird Flu: Scientists Develop New Strain Of H5N1, Avian Influenza, That Could Kill Millions 2011