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Flu researchers don’t know when they can restart work

(New Scientist) After six months of dispute, research in the Netherlands that made a deadly H5N1 flu airborne will be published this week. The scientists behind it now want to get on with their work – but they can’t. In December 2011, a US biosecurity committee advised against publishing the research, fearing it was “dual-use Read More »

June 20, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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NIAID Issues Contract For Advanced Work on Smallpox-Marburg Virus Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued a contract to a Danish biotechnology firm to finance advanced research of experimental vaccines that could be used against both the Marburg and smallpox viruses. “This new contract will support the advanced development of candidate vaccine components and technologies that accelerate Read More »

June 20, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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$400 million to boost bioterror vaccine manufacturing

(FiercePharma Manufacturing) Three companies, one Swiss, one British and one U.S., will share $400 million to boost vaccine manufacturing capacity in the U.S. that the government can draft in the case of a pandemic or bioterror threats. Emergent BioSolutions ($EBS), GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) and Novartis ($NVS) are the recipients of the first phase of the buildup Read More »

June 20, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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David Hoffman: Why did they do it?

(Foreign Policy) Looking back, one of the most unsettling phenomenon of the Cold War was the extent to which the superpowers, locked in existential confrontation, failed to see each other clearly. From the bomber and missile “gaps” of the 1950s to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the so-called “window of vulnerability” of the late Read More »

June 19, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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EU Sets Restrictions on Dual-Use Exports to Syria

(Global Security Newswire) European Union nations as of Sunday were prohibited from exporting to Syria select products that could be used in the production of chemical or biological warfare agents. The European Council on Friday signed off on a set of bans and restrictions on sales of luxury and “dual-use” items to the Middle Eastern Read More »