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Senate Hearing on H5N1 papers exposes political divides

(Nature News Blog) Today in Washington D.C., US Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut revealed that his grandmother was killed by influenza during the 1918 pandemic. This was one reason he has been so interested in a pair of yet-to-be-published papers on laboratory-created H5N1 avian influenza strains that could conceivably prove many times more deadly than  Read More »

Senate Cmte. Examines Biological Security and Dual-Use Research

(C-SPAN) The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on dual-use research and how it can be used for bioterrorism. In recent years, concerns over dual-use research, which can be used for both beneficial scientific and medical purposes and bioterrorism, have grown due to advances in biotechnology that allow us create synthetic viruses in the  Read More »

SENSENBRENNER: Preventing release of lethal science

(Washington Times) Government needs plans for locking down research sought by terrorists By Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. When researchers used federal funding to genetically mutate the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus to make it capable of respiratory transmission between ferrets, the U.S. government was caught flat-footed on how to proceed with this potentially dangerous  Read More »

More efficient bioterrorism response plan

(Homeland Security NewsWire) In the event of a bioterror attack on a building (think: the 2011 anthrax attack on the offices of two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont), the current approach to decontamination is to clean up the building until no pathogens can be detected; researchers suggest, however,  Read More »

Chem-bio terrorist attacks a supplanted fad, says analysis

(Fierce Homeland Security) Terrorist attempts to launch chemical-biological based attacks on public transportation were a fad supplanted by a more realistic return to explosives in the latter part of the last decade, says a new analysis published this month by the Mineta Transportation Institute. The analysis examines 15 failed terrorist plots against public transportation in  Read More »

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