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Iraqis suffer from effects of US biological weapons

(Press TV) An Iranian lawmaker says biological weapons used by the United States in Iraq have caused cancer among the people and defects in newborn babies. “Water and soil in Iraq have been contaminated by the American biological weapons which have caused various diseases among the Iraqi people,” Abed Fattahi said on Wednesday. The Iranian  Read More »

Weapon-Usable Tech Seen Challenging Bioweapons Convention

(Global Security Newswire) An array of advances in science and technology threaten to undermine the Biological Weapons Convention by enabling a nefarious actor to engineer disease agents to be more virulent or resistant to medical countermeasures, treaty signatories said on Friday. Growing capabilities to render pathogens more communicable, immune system-resistant, or honed to specific targets  Read More »

Countries to Examine Options for Strengthening Bioweapons Convention

(Global Security Newswire) Nations are set at a yearly gathering next week to consider means of bolstering compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention and building on its ability to impede the creation or employment of arms-usable disease agents and toxins, the United Nations said. The meeting of treaty signatories would examine advancements since the 2011  Read More »

CIA Sued Over Alledged 1953 Murder of Military Scientist

(Bloomberg) Employees of the Central Intelligence Agency murdered military scientist Frank Olson in 1953 after he raised concerns about testing chemical and biological weapons on human subjects without their consent, according to a lawsuit brought by his two sons. Eric and Nils Olson, in a complaint filed against the U.S. today in Washington, said the  Read More »

Army Opens New Proteomics Core Lab for CBRNE Research

(Global Biodefense) The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) last month officially opened a new Proteomics Core Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The organizations collaborated to design a shared working space to meet expanding requirements for proteomics and genomics research at each institution. “Rather than duplicate  Read More »

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