Image via Wikipedia From Wired: Just about a month ago, the disease-geek world was riveted by news of the “Indian superbug“: common bacteria carrying a newly recognized gene that confers profound multi-drug resistance, and that was linked to travel between Europe and South Asia, especially for medical tourism. The gene, which directs production of an [...] Read more »
Big Indian Brother? India Creates National Biometric ID System
GearLog Starting this month, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) will begin the long process of matching each of its billion-plus citizens with a unique ID number. The number will be tied to three pieces of biometric data: fingerprints ... Read more »
New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states
Associated Press By MARILYNN MARCHIONE BOSTON — An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over th... Read more »
GORDON DUFF: Americans Believed Involved in Pakistan Air Crash, Hijacking
Veterans Today By Gordon Duff Islamabad, Pakistan (Veterans Today exclusive) Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Jet Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that country. Sources indicate that the plane crash was an unsuccessful [...] Read more »
Good News: Security Researcher Released on Bail
Hari Prasad, the Indian security researcher arrested for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine, has been released on bail.
Earlier this year, an anonymous source gave the machine to Prasad and a team of researchers, who discovered critical security flaws. Under questioning by authorities last weekend, Prasad refused to divulge the identity of the source who gave them the machine. He was then arrested and reportedly charged with theft and trespass on the theory that he stole the machine himself.
According to the Indian news agency PTI, the magistrate who released Prasad on bail noted that "no offence was disclosed with Hari Prasad's arrest and even if it was assumed that [the electronic voting machine] was stolen it appears that there was no dishonest intention on his part...he was trying to show how [electronic voting] machines can be tampered with."
The court reportedly also asked the Election Commission of India to confirm or disprove Prasad's claim that the country's electronic voting machines can be compromised. If Prasad's claims are false, action could be taken against him, the magistrate said.
Read more »SUPER bug released in USA – Another bio weapon?
Medical experts are worried that NDM-1 enzyme can make bacteria resistant to many drugs. The gene can easily replicate in other bacteria also and will eventually form a superbug, which in turn will be resistant to other antibiotics. According to a study, around 37 patients got infected with superbugs having NDM-1 gene, and were founded [...] Read more »
