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Next-Generation Bio-Surveillance Program’s Costs Questioned; Future Remains Murky

(NationalDefenseMagazine) A plan to field “laboratories in a box” in U.S. cities that can sniff the air for signs of a biological weapon attack have been put on hold, and a Department of Homeland Security official said he has no idea when it will get underway again.
 DHS called a halt to the troubled BioWatch3  Read More »

HHS grants to bolster disaster preparedness for health care, public health

(HHS) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $916 million to continue improving preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats within every state, eight U.S. territories, and four of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. “Recent events underscore the critical role these preparedness programs play in  Read More »

AVMA Op-Ed in The Hill highlights need for Farm Bill

(BovineVeterinarian) The Hill, a congressional newspaper based in Washington, D.C., published an op-ed on Friday by the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Dr. W. Ron DeHaven, highlighting the need for Congress to pass a Farm Bill so that veterinarians and scientists can continue ensuring the safety of the nation’s  Read More »

Dangerous Pathogens: Biodefense a High Priority for U.S. Labs

(DecodedScience) This year’s National Biosurveillance Science and Technology Roadmap is out, demonstrating that protecting the nation against dangerous microbes is front and center on the U.S. research agenda, whether weaponized, or emerging from wild places disrupted by human incursions. We live in a post-911 world. The terrorist attacks in 2001 followed almost immediately by letters  Read More »

Pakistan, Nepal want PH’s dengue traps

(InquiererGlobalNation) The ingenious ovicidal/larvicidal (OL) trap devised by Filipino scientists has attracted the interest of two other nations fighting the scourge of the mosquito-borne dengue hemorrhagic fever. An official of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Pakistan and Nepal had formally communicated their interest to adopt the device to curb the transmission of  Read More »