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Duck Farming Spreads Bird Flu in Vietnam

Even before the boat drifts into sight, all senses are alerted to its cargo — a chorus of raucous quacking mixed with an unmistakable stench.

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CDC Halts Texas A&M Biodefense Research After Infections Go Unreported
Source: Wired News

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suspended all biodefense research at Texas A&M University, citing the university's failure to report the accidental exposure of four researchers to highly dangerous diseases.

Cover-up of Texas A&M infection alleged
Source: Star-Telegram

Three Texas A&M University researchers were accidentally infected with a highly contagious biological weapons agent last year and university officials covered it up, an Austin-based watchdog group alleged Tuesday.

US Air Force Sought A "Gay Bomb" as Late as 2002
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Make love not war may be the enduring slogan of anti-war campaigners but in 1994 the US air force produced its own variation on the philosophy.

Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
Source: cbs5.com

(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Score One for Sunshine - TV Reports Bird Flu Accident
Source: -

Thanks to The Sunshine Project this story appeared in Newsvine on January 20. The investigative report, by local newscaster, Mike Warren, aired on February 26. Almost a month has elapsed and the University continues to with hold information.

CJ's & Newsvine Push Congressional Disclosures

As part of an ongoing effort to create transparency and accountability in Congress, The Sunlight Foundation launched a project to evaluate Congressional websites. They put out a call for citizens and journalists to help spread the word and aid the investigations.

Bush's Secret Strategy Directive Gearing Up for Biowarfare
Source: Political Affairs

Some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research often with potential to be used for germ warfare have refused to disclose their operations to the public as required by Federal rules, a nonprofit watchdog agency has charged. Instead of  …

WHO Battle Over Genetically Engineered Small Pox
Source: Biosafety Information Center

The site contains mostly pdf reports, so the summary note is here to help get a handle on the issues. THIRD WORLD NETWORK BIOSAFETY INFORMATION SERVICE Dear friends and colleagues, RE: Call for smallpox genetic engineering to be banned

U Texas Coverup of Bird Flu - H5N1 Influenza Accident

The story of the mysterious, dead birds in Austin was proclaimed solved by the Associated Press today. That's simply not true, actually nothing could be farther from the truth.

Dead Birds in Texas and Pandemic Bird Flu Cover Up
Source: Sunshine Project

The Bird Flu Lab Accident that Officially Didn't Happen, or How the University of Texas at Austin Could Have Caused the Next Influenza Pandemic, but Everybody Lived to Cover It Up

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