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By Category: Bioterrorism

Livermore Lab bioweapons center debated in court

(San Francisco Chronicle) Research at the center is intended to help the government detect biological pathogens such as anthrax, plague, brucellosis and Q fever. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the facility in 2006, saying the Department of Energy’s environmental assessment had failed to study the possibility that terrorists could cause a release Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, and Research
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Anthrax jabs stockpiled in biological terrorism alert

(Evening Standard) Britain is building up stocks of vaccine to cope with an anthrax attack at the Olympics, the Standard can reveal. The Government is replenishing its anthrax jabs stockpile in time for April to safeguard the 2012 Games as part of London’s biggest security operation. The supply of inoculations to combat anthrax poisoning to Read More »

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Laurie Garrett: Keeping superbugs away from terrorists

(Capital Times) Within government circles around the world, the announcement has highlighted a dilemma: How do you balance the universal mandate for scientific openness against the fear that terrorists or rogue states might follow the researchers’ work — using it as catastrophic cookbooks for global influenza contagion? Concern reached such heights that U.S. Secretary of Read More »

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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The nuclear, biological and climate threat – 2011 reviewed

(EurekAlert!) Gerald Epstein, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy (CSIS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that 2011 saw progress on approaches to address biological threats posed by non-state groups at both the Seventh Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference and the G8 Global Partnership Against the Read More »

January 9, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Controversial bird flu studies defy easy solutions: WHO

(CTV.ca) While it’s tempting to boil the arguments down to a single issue — the evils of censorship, the sanctity of open science, the dangers of bioterrorism — to do so ignores the many difficult questions that the scientific, public health and security …