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Kathleen Vogel

Publishing Data On New Disease Strains Draws Concern Of Intelligence Analysts

The new strain produces a type of deadly botulinum toxin for which there is no antidote. For that reason, California scientists and public health officials decided to redact the bacteria’s sequence information to prevent it from falling into terrorist hands.

February 04th, 2014

By Kathleen Vogel

Publishing Data On New Disease Strains Draws Concern Of Intelligence Analysts

ITHACA, New York — Recently, scientists in California discovered a new strain of Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium responsible for the disease botulism. This discovery made national headlines because the scientists purposefully withheld publishing the bacteria’s genetic sequence. The new strain produces a type of deadly botulinum toxin for

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