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Moroccan Officials Tour Ft. Detrick To Improve CBRN Defenses

Lt. Col. Mohamed El Haouri and Capt. Jalal Kasouati, two Moroccan military medical officers, were recently given a familiarization visit to Fort Detrick, Maryland and multiple other facilities in the area between November 14 and 19.

More questions raised about security of Boston BioLab

Boston University has opened a $178 million biolab in a residential area in Boston’s South End; the facility, in which lethal diseases such as Ebola and the plague will be studies, houses only administrative staff, pending state approval; that approval depends on a final risk assessment review — but a new study by the National  Read More »

Kansas Officials Stand by Planned Biosecurity Lab

Kansas officials said yesterday they were not deterred by a new report that raised questions about locating a high-level biosecurity laboratory in an area of their state heavily populated with residents and cattle, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Nov. 16). Citing a Homeland Security Department risk assessment, the National Research Council report issued this  Read More »

US warns of bioterrorism threat in East Africa

Business Daily AfricaUS warns of bioterrorism threat in East AfricaBusiness Daily Africa… in the region – that's why they are being studied, points out Gigi Kwik Gronvall, senior associate at the UPMC Centre for Biosecurity in Pittsburgh. …Sen. Lugar highlights potential bioterrorism threat posed by unsecured medical …News-Medical.netUS Sees Vulnerabilities at Kenyan BiolabsGlobal Security Newswireall  Read More »

U.S. Sees Vulnerabilities at Kenyan Biolabs

U.S. officials are concerned that a Kenyan laboratory in Nairobi housing dangerous biological agents employs insufficient security in a country plagued by terrorism and occasional instability, the Associated Press reported on Friday (see GSN, Nov. 11). “Unfortunately in this world there are a great number of terrorists who, whether individuals or organizations, have given a  Read More »

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