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US relaxes regulations for labs handling bird flu samples to ease virus response

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Mary Wilson

Well-known member
May 14, 20244:15 PM CDT Updated 2 hours ago
By Julie Steenhuysen​

CHICAGO, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. government officials have temporarily relaxed strict guidelines on how public health laboratories and healthcare facilities handle, store and transport H5N1 bird flu samples, which are considered high-risk pathogens, in response to the recent spread of the virus to dairy cattle.
The revised guidance, which has not been previously reported, came at the request of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), which represents state and local labs that monitor and detect public health threats, according to interviews and correspondence seen by Reuters.​ ...

APHL Executive Director Scott Becker said his group made the request to prepare for the possibility that H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, acquires the ability to become easily transmitted among people. ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...d-flu-samples-ease-virus-response-2024-05-14/
 
US Eases Laws For Labs Handling Bird Flu Samples

​ May 15 2024, 00:27​
Edited By
Ramananda Sengupta​

... Ewa King, former director of the State of Rhode Island’s public health lab who now oversees infectious diseases and other public health programs at the APHL, said the request was designed to cut bureaucracy and make the best use of laboratory resources in the event of an outbreak in people.

“If we had to be filling out these forms, we would be slowing down the testing, because there’s only so many people that we have to dedicate to these tasks,” she said. ...

https://stratnewsglobal.com/world-news/us-eases-laws-for-labs-handling-bird-flu-samples/

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