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India Completes High-Security Biodefense Lab

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) India on Tuesday announced the completion of its first Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, which could conduct research involving lethal disease agents that could pose a bioterrorism threat. Biosafety Level 4 laboratories are authorized to work with materials that cause the world’s most dangerous diseases, including those for which there is no known cure.

Bio attack/pandemic preparedness bill approved by Congress

(GovernmentSecurityNews) A bill that improves the ability of U.S. infrastructure to respond to a bio terror or pandemic has been approved by both the House and Senate and now awaits the president’s signature to become law. The bill, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 307), was passed by the House on March  Read More »

Gates Foundation Funding for Neglected Tropical Diseases

(GlobalBiodefense) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners have announced an invitation to innovators to apply for grant funding of ‘New Approaches for Detection, Treatment, and Control of Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases.’

Nauru Joins Biological Weapons Convention

(NTI) The South Pacific island state of Nauru has become the 168th member nation to the Biological Weapons Convention, the United Nations announced on Tuesday. “The United States, as depositary government, confirmed the accession of Nauru to the convention on 5 March 2013,” according to a statement from the U.N. Office at Geneva.

Q&A: Bioshield Program Successful After Rocky Start

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) A multibillion-dollar federal program to spur manufacturing of medical countermeasures against weapons of mass destruction had a “rocky start” but over the last decade has added 11 new products to the nation’s emergency stockpile, a top Health and Human Services Department official said.

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