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Florida Health Officials on Look Out For Bioattack Ahead of GOP Convention

(Global Security Newswire) Medical practitioners in the Tampa, Fla., area have been asked to be “extra vigilant” as they forward information on disease incidents to public health officials ahead of this month’s GOP convention, the Associated Press reported on Friday. Any signs of a biological weapons attack that could involve such highly infectious disease agents as plague Read More »

August 20, 2012
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
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Critical Reagents Program Issues RFI for Biodefense Material Services

(Global Biodefense) The Department of Defense Critical Reagents Program (CRP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking companies qualified to support the manufacture, storage, and distribution of high priority reagents and biological sampling kits. The CRP’s mission is to serve as the principle resource of high quality, validated, and standardized biological detection assays and Read More »

August 14, 2012
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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U.N. Draft Measure Warns Syria Over WMD

(Global Security Newswire) A U.N. General Assembly proposal due for consideration on Friday would urge Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave office while pressing his beleaguered government not to employ its unconventional armaments or hand them off to nongovernmental entities, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 31). Observers fear that escalating violence in the Read More »

August 2, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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Flu researchers bristle under federal policy

(Nature) It has been four months since the US government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose significant risks to the public if misapplied. At a meeting in New York on Monday, representatives of leading institutions that perform such research discussed their experiences Read More »

August 1, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Bioterrorism
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‘Israel Will Go to War if Hizbullah Gets Chemical Weapons’

(Arutz Sheva) Israel is prepared to intervene militarily if Hizbullah gets a hold of Assad’s chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned in Brussels on Tuesday. “In the moment we see that the Syrians transfer chemical and biological weapons to Hizbullah, this is a red line for us and from our point of view it‘s Read More »