Study blames gulls, not storks, for bringing in bird flu A study has found that the bird that carried the influenza virus H5N1 into Thailand was a gull, not the openbill stork. [News Source]

Biosafety Laboratory could not be constructed in 3 years By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Sept 2: Construction work of high level Biosafety Laboratory being constructed under expansion plan of High Security Animal Disease Lab (HSADL) situated at Hataikheda has not yet started even after three years have passed. [News Source]

At Raytheon, where engineering rules Road Trip 2010: The defense giant encourages openness among its 40,000-plus engineers as it tackles tech issues in areas from missiles to radar to semiconductors. Originally posted at Geek Gestalt [News Source]

Halliwell quits Bernard Matthews Jeff Halliwell, managing director of turkey giant Bernard Matthews, is leaving the company just over a year after being appointed. [News Source]

“Data Is the New Soil” Journalist and designer David McCandless gave an inspiring TED talk last month, just posted online last week. In it, he shows off some of his favorite visualizations of data and explains why visualization is increasingly vital, the more information we as media consumers are exposed to. [News Source]

Newark-based iBio teams with GE Newark biopharmaceutical startup iBio has partnered with GE Healthcare, a UK-based General Electric business, to market its plant-based technology for producing vaccines or other protein-based medicines. [News Source]

WPI researchers: Cranberry juice cocktail blocks strain of S. aureus Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection. [News Source]

NEWS SCAN: Anthrax vaccine contract, Salmonella in eggs, H5N1 shots in Taiwan, Staph skin infections Federal contract supports more work on adjuvanted anthrax vaccine Emergent BioSolutions Inc. today announced it has won a federal contract worth up to $28.7 million for further development of its "third generation" anthrax vaccine, consisting of the existing product, BioThrax (anthrax vaccine adsorbed), combined with a novel adjuvant called CPG 7909. BioThrax is the only US-licensed anthrax ... [News Source]

Game and Fish outdoor briefs Briefs from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. [News Source]

Bird flu: Experts to shift focus Reuters. HANOI. Mid-size traders and farms that sell poultry to small farmers could act as avian flu transmission hubs and there needs to be better biosecurity at that level, a top United Nations expert said yesterday. [News Source]

EPIC aims to show the way to success "Leading the Way to Success" is the theme of this year's Egg and Poultry Industry Conference. Poultry World takes a look at what's on offer. [News Source]

MMR: The zombie controversy that still lurches on | Martin Robbins The MMR vaccine makes an unwelcome return to the headlines I thought it was over. I thought it was finished. But then I flicked on the TV and saw that Ultimate Big Brother was on, some monstrous new zombie version of the interminable celebration of mediocrity, and now I'm too traumatised even to glance at a TV Guide until probably around December time, when I have my annual "oh dear God is this ... [News Source]