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By Region: Asia/Pacific

Pentagon Analyzing Chem, Bio Defense Programs

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Defense Department in August initiated a “strategic review and analysis” of its defense operations against biological and chemical weapons threats, Defense News quoted a high-level Pentagon official as saying on Thursday (see GSN, Sept. 29, 2010). “We needed to relook the whole” of the department’s activities on biological and chemical Read More »

December 13, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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UN – Review Conference Can Boost Cooperation on Peaceful Uses of Biological …

(ISRIA) The Biological Weapons Convention is central to the global disarmament and non-proliferation framework. Over the past five years, States parties have developed common understandings aimed at better implementation of this critical instrument. …

December 9, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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A new map of “the other” malaria

The malarial parasite, Plasmodium vivax, is something of a forgotten step sister to the more prevalent, more deadly Plasmodium falciparum. Global and local programmes looking to eradicate malaria may need to pay it more attention say several health experts presenting at this year’s annual meeting for the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Read More »

December 8, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, North America, South America, South Asia, and Public Health
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Vet completes foot and mouth disease course in Kenya

(ABC Online) Fifteen of the world’s top vets have completed a one-week study tour of Kenya, where foot and mouth disease is now endemic. NSW DPI regional district vet Paul Freeman was one of only two Australian vets to attend the EU course on handling the disease. He says while Australia is prepared for an Read More »

December 7, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and International
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Canberra Vaccine Expert Urges Censorship on Bird Flu Strain Mutant Research

(International Business Times AU) A vaccine expert from Canberra’s National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) wants the formula used by virologists to mutate the bird flu virus into a strain capable of killing humans to be omitted in the published version of their experiment for security reason. The censorship would prevent others from genetically engineering the Read More »