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US Case Adds to Unusual Monkeypox Outbreak
US Case Adds to Unusual Monkeypox Outbreak
Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.
Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.
Canada, microbiology
Canadian Official Reprimanded for Withholding Winnipeg Lab Info
Annie Melchor | Jun 23, 2021 | 3 min read
The House of Commons rebuked the president of the Canadian Public Health Agency for not turning over sensitive information pertaining to the dismissal of government scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory.
Union Says National Lab in Canada Is a Toxic Workplace
Jef Akst | Sep 30, 2019 | 3 min read
After a scientist at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg had a mental breakdown that may have contributed to her death in 2016, employees raise red flags about an unhealthy work environment.
Questions Surround Canadian Shipment of Deadly Viruses to China
Nicoletta Lanese | Aug 9, 2019 | 3 min read
The same Winnipeg lab that sent Ebola and Henipah viruses to Beijing recently removed a number of researchers for an “administrative issue.”
In Canada, Signs of Life Nearly 4 Billion Years Old
Ashley P. Taylor | Sep 28, 2017 | 2 min read
Embedded within 3.95-billion-year-old rock, scientists have found graphite with a carbon signature that indicates biological activity.