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By Region: Asia/Pacific

S. Korea to map out plan to counter bioterrorism

(Yonhap) South Korea plans to set up a five-year plan to better protect itself from possible biological terrorist attacks, the country’s public health and safety agency said Monday. The 2013-2017 plan calls for extensive research and development (R&D) to create vaccines and antidotes, quick detection and precise diagnosis of harmful agents, and the collection of Read More »

May 21, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Evaluation of a genetically modified foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine candidate generated by reverse genetics

(Press Release) Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is the most economically important and highly contagious disease of cloven-hoofed animals worldwide. Control of the disease has been mainly based on large-scale vaccinations with whole-virus inactivated vaccines. In recent years, a series of outbreaks of type O FMD occurred in China (including Chinese Taipei, Chinese Hong Kong) posed a Read More »

May 17, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and Research
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Congress, Bioterrorism and Asia

(The Diplomat) Last week, I wrote on the danger partisanship posed to U.S. policymaking, including foreign policy. But as former Sen. Bob Graham has suggested, political turf wars aren’t all about partisanship – politicians are quite happy to place their own influence in Congress’s myriad committees above the nation’s good. This likely won’t come as Read More »

May 15, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, South Asia, Bioterrorism, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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The Food and Drug Administration’s Expanding Global Reach

(The Atlantic) The FDA has just released a classy new report on Global Engagement, summarizing its efforts to deal with issues raised by the globalization of drugs, medical devices, and foods. This is a big deal. In 2009, 300,000 foreign facilities in more than 150 countries exported $2 trillion worth of FDA-regulated products to the Read More »

May 14, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South Asia, Agriculture, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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South Korea Announces Biodefense Exercise

(Global Security Newswire) South Korea said on Friday it would collaborate with the United States in an exercise next week aimed at assessing their capacity to respond to intentional or natural disease outbreaks, Kyodo News reported. Roughly 190 individuals representing 50 U.S. and South Korean government organizations are due to participate in the four-day “Able Read More »