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The National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility: Issues for Congress
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9, issued by President G.W. Bush, tasks the Secretaries of Agriculture and Homeland Security to develop a plan to provide safe, secure, and state-of-theart agriculture biocontainment laboratories for research and development of diagnostic capabilities and medical countermeasures for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases. To partially meet these obligations, DHS has requested Read More »
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Ricin: Technical Background and Potential Role in Terrorism
On December 20, 2010, CBS News reported that the Department of Homeland Security had uncovered a credible threat of attacks using poisons, such as ricin, in salad bars and buffets. Ricin, a deadly toxin derived from castor beans, has been identified as a potential bioweapon. Ricin is extremely toxic by ingestion, inhalation, and injection. No Read More »
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
In 2004, Congress passed the Project BioShield Act (P.L. 108-276) to encourage the private sector to develop medical countermeasures to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism agents and to provide a novel mechanism for federal acquisition of those newly developed countermeasures. Although some countermeasures have been acquired through this law, Congress continues to address Read More »
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Research Policy and Management of Risks in Life Sciences Research for Global Health Security
Report of the meeting Bangkok, Thailand 10-12 December 2007 This meeting report summarizes the recommendations, presentations and discussions made at the meeting on Research Policy and Management of Risks in Life Sciences Research, held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 10-12 December 2007. The selection of countries was made in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Read More »
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Report, and 2001-2025
Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons (2nd ed.)
“The message contained in this publication is clear: countries need a public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of chemical and biological agents. Regrettable though this message may be, the use of poison gas in the war between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s, the recent anthrax incidents Read More »
- April 7, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Other, and 2001-2025
