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Raiders News Update
Mar. 07, 2006

1. GENE FROM 1918 VIRUS PROVES KEY TO VIRULENT INFLUENZA

Writing Oct. 7 in the journal Nature, virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, describes experiments in which engineered viruses were made more potent by the addition of a single gene. The work is evidence that a slight genetic tweak is all that is required to transform mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more pathogenic and, possibly, more transmissible... more

2. U.S. TO CREATE A BIRD FLU VIRUS MUTATION

The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday... more

3. CALLS FOR BIRD FLU MILITARY LABS

A military-style approach is needed to counter the worldwide threat of H5N1 bird flu, it has been claimed. US experts want to see a network of rapid-response laboratories set up based on an existing military model established after the Second World War... more

4. TROOPS MIGHT BE USED TO EFFECT A QUARANTINE DURING PANDEMIC, BUSH SAYS

President Bush said yesterday that he would consider using the military to "effect a quarantine" in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza in the United States... more

5. HALLIBUTON SUBSIDIARY AWARDED $385M CONTRACT FOR DETENTION CENTERS

KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency... more

6. DoD OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE PANDEMIC

Defense Department officials are working to create a pandemic influenza plan in time for the Department of Homeland Defense's end-of-March deadline, a DoD medical official said... more

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