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Better health comes in shipping containers

All Headline NewsLabs are internationally graded according to their biosafety level, or the level of precautions taken to isolate dangerous diseases like TB. Zambia's first container lab ranks at 3 on…

March 3, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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Kansas House, Senate leaders urge Congress to fund National Bio- and Agro- Defense Facility

Kansas House, Senate leaders urge Congress to fund National Bio- and Agro Defense Facility. Kansas legislative leaders spent time this week knocking on doors in Washington to urge Congress to fund construction of new biosecurity facility in the state. Rep…

March 3, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Secretary Napolitano Outlines DHS Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request

Secretary Napolitano Outlines DHS Fiscal Year 2012 Budget RequestGov MonitorNational Bio and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF): $150 million is requested to begin construction of the NBAF, which will serve as a new, state-of-the-art biosafety level 3 & 4 facility. Work performed at NBAF will lead to the development of vaccines and …and more »

March 2, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Trouble in the air at Fort Detrick

Frederick residents have had plenty of reminders lately why they should be concerned about the biodefense facilities in their midst: an ongoing cancer cluster investigation related to past groundwater contamination, an Agent Orange protest, and headlines about the 2001 anthrax attacks — which the FBI still insists were perpetrated by a researcher at Fort Detrick’s Read More »

February 28, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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$6 million approved for biology labs at Pittsburgh

The renovations will establish a Biosafety Level 2 and 3 Laboratory Suite for the biological sciences department, the university said. The renovations, expected to be completed this year…