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Turkey taking measures to prevent spread of FMD

Turkish regions along the Bulgarian border are taking measures to prevent the spread of Food-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). The Turkish authorities have suspended all movement or evacuation of animals in the region of Kirklareli, Hasan Cebi was quoted, head of the agricultural directorate in the province. The existence of Foot-and-Mouth Disease is a threat to EU Read More »

April 26, 2011
| Filed under Europe, Agriculture, and Countermeasures
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Plugging Holes Over Bioweapons

This December, the picturesque city of Geneva will host the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The BWC, which 163 countries are state parties to, prohibits the use, development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. In advance of the Review Conference, international delegates to the Convention met from April 13 Read More »

April 22, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, and International
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WHO group finalizes landmark pandemic virus-sharing agreement

(CIDRAP News) – A World Health Organization (WHO) working group on influenza virus sharing capped off a week of negotiations with a final agreement that establishes a framework for sharing vaccine strains alongside a system for improving the flow of pandemic vaccine and medications to developing countries. The WHO said yesterday that the group, which Read More »

April 19, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, and International
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Future in Doubt for International WMD Nonproliferation Center

WASHINGTON — Russia has indicated it intends to withdraw from an international organization established to halt the spread of the nation’s WMD expertise, a move that could force the program’s main hub to close before the end of this year (see GSN, June 19, 2009). The International Science and Technology Center opened in Moscow in Read More »

April 18, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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BWC Review Conference Chairman Aims to Bolster Treaty Regime

WASHINGTON — The Biological Weapons Convention review conference this year should look at ways to strengthen the international prohibition against the offensive use of disease materials, according to the chairman of the upcoming meeting