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WHO group finalizes landmark pandemic virus-sharing agreement
(CIDRAP News) – A World Health Organization (WHO) working group on influenza virus sharing capped off a week of negotiations with a final agreement that establishes a framework for sharing vaccine strains alongside a system for improving the flow of pandemic vaccine and medications to developing countries. The WHO said yesterday that the group, which Read More »
- April 19, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, and International
Future in Doubt for International WMD Nonproliferation Center
WASHINGTON — Russia has indicated it intends to withdraw from an international organization established to halt the spread of the nation’s WMD expertise, a move that could force the program’s main hub to close before the end of this year (see GSN, June 19, 2009). The International Science and Technology Center opened in Moscow in Read More »
- April 18, 2011
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, and Policy & Initiatives
African Pathogens Must Be Secured, Lugar Says
A senior U.S. senator highlighted the need to protect deadly pathogen samples housed in African laboratories from hostile actors who might seek to deploy them in a biological attack, Chemical & Engineering News reported on Monday (see GSN, Nov., 23, 2010). During the Cold War, the former Soviet Union conducted research into the biowarfare uses Read More »
- April 14, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, North America, Biological Weapons, and International
BWC Review Conference Chairman Aims to Bolster Treaty Regime
WASHINGTON — The Biological Weapons Convention review conference this year should look at ways to strengthen the international prohibition against the offensive use of disease materials, according to the chairman of the upcoming meeting
- April 13, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
Biosecurity Can Reinvigorate the US-Japan Relationship by Masamichi Minehata
Just as the nuclear revolution profoundly affected international security in the 20th century, biotechnology, and the life sciences more broadly, with their growing capacity to understand and manipulate fundamental life processes, will have a profound impact on security in the 21st century. This offers great benefits as a means of responding to societal challenges related Read More »
- April 8, 2011
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, and International