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Nation Sells FMD Vaccine to Egypt

(AllAfrica.com) Botswana Vaccine Institute has for the first time sold Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine to Egypt where an outbreak of the disease has been reported. BVI General Manager Onkabetse Matlho told a media briefing yesterday that they were sending the first batch next Monday. He said they have received an order of 2 million  Read More »

Foot-and-mouth disease reported in Gaza Strip

(FAO news) The detection in the Gaza Strip of a new case of a novel strain of foot-and-mouth disease underscores the importance of maintaining – and intensifying – international efforts to stop the virus from spreading further in the Middle East and North Africa. With vaccines against the SAT2 virus still in short supply, the  Read More »

U.S. Completing Work on Foot-and-Mouth Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. government has almost finished work on a vaccine for treating the highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease — a possible biological weapon for terrorists looking to decimate the nation’s meat production, BBC News reported last week. While humans cannot contract foot-and-mouth disease, it is extremely contagious among cloven-footed animals such as goats,  Read More »

Exploring Options For NBAF

(KCUR) It’s another big week for NBAF, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under construction in Manhattan, Kan. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences will be hearing expert testimony about the animal health lab in three teleconferences, beginning tomorrow. And the project’s future may be at stake because this committee is  Read More »

Top DHS Official Defends Kansas Biodefense Lab

(Global Security Newswire) A top U.S. Homeland Security official this month defended plans to build a massive state-of-the-art biodefense complex in Kansas even as she recognized the enormous expense of the project posed serious problems for the federal government at a time of wide-ranging cutbacks, Harvest Public Media reported on Tuesday. The envisioned National Bio and  Read More »

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