Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

Source 1
Investigations of Salmonella enterica Serovar Newport Infections of Oysters by Using Immunohistochemistry and Knockout Mutagenesis

Analysis: This article highlights the finding of salmonella being found on oysters after over two months and even worse found out that it was able to go undetected by burrowing into the deep tissues of the oysters.  This shows that certain diseases can adapt to different circumstances then becoming a major hazard for people and that without labs studying this,  we would never know and people would get sick.

Published: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Author: Joens, LA, Morrison CM, Dial SM, DayWA

Source 2
Expert Knowledge in Intelligence Assessments: Bird Flu and Bioterrorism

Analysis:  This article explains that the a lab in the Netherlands found that a strain of the Bird flu is transmissible by air heightening fears that it can be used as a weapon as well as it getting out and starting a pandemic.  The two main issues stated in the article ask if one that there is enough backing to study more of this kind of bioterrorism and the second issue is that with recent, this being 2011, issues of biosecurity failing could terrorists acquire this or could this disease be let loose by mistake.

Published: President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014

Author: Kathleen M. Vogel