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Homeland Security: An Overall Strategy Is Needed to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Livestock and Poultry

(GAO) Under a new approach, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has begun broadening its previous disease-by-disease approach to disease surveillance to one in which the agency monitors the overall health of livestock and poultry and uses additional sources and types of data to better detect and control Read More »

May 22, 2013
| Filed under Agriculture, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Bioterrorism drills in Ore., Wash. next week

(KGW) Fire crews, police and health officials in the Portland Metro area next week will simulate a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon. “The incident is simulated, the sickness and death imagined, yet all involved will take it very seriously,” said Port of Portland spokeswoman Kama Simonds.

May 16, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Regional biosecurity labs close – ABC Local

Regional biosecurity labs closeABC LocalDifficulties with getting samples to and from Brisbane's Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory could compromise disease surveillance in Queensland according to a Southern Downs Vet. The animal disease surveillance laboratories in Toowoomba and Townsville …and more »

April 26, 2013
| Filed under Biosafety
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Killer cure: why is the US creating new viruses, and stockpiling the vaccines?

(TheVerge) Is the US government prepared to respond to a major biological weapons attack or lethal outbreak of disease in this country? If you look at one effort — a quietly growing national stockpile of vaccines and drug treatments for such horrors as anthrax and avian flu — the answer is yes. But one agency Read More »

April 18, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Killer cure: why is the US creating new viruses, and stockpiling the vaccines? – The Verge

Killer cure: why is the US creating new viruses, and stockpiling the vaccines?The Verge… a report issued by the Government Accountability Office in February found that there is no good estimate of how many labs around the US are able to carry out the work of engineering deadly new pathogens (labs rated the highest biosafety Read More »