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Homeland Security: An Overall Strategy Is Needed to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Livestock and Poultry

(GAO) Under a new approach, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has begun broadening its previous disease-by-disease approach to disease surveillance to one in which the agency monitors the overall health of livestock and poultry and uses additional sources and types of data to better detect and control  Read More »

NAMRU-3 Researchers Collaborate on Dengue Prevention

(Global Biodefense) The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3) initiated a new project for efficient and sustained control of dengue vectors in Lahore, Pakistan. The emergence of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever is considered a major public health threat there.

Bioterrorism drills in Ore., Wash. next week

(KGW) Fire crews, police and health officials in the Portland Metro area next week will simulate a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon. “The incident is simulated, the sickness and death imagined, yet all involved will take it very seriously,” said Port of Portland spokeswoman Kama Simonds.

Film reveals new footage of Soviet bioweapons program

(CornellChronicle) The purpose of a secret Soviet facility was to produce tons of anthrax bacteria to kill Americans, according to a U.S. government official. The facility was capable of producing 300 metric tons of anthrax in 10 months – more capacity than the entire Iraqi biological weapons program. “The scale is just chilling,” Andrew Weber  Read More »

US high court rules against soybean farmer in seed-patent case

(Nature) The US Supreme Court has issued a unanimous ruling today that a soybean farmer violated patents when he planted genetically modified soybeans without first paying the intellectual property holder.

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