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Bioterrorism drills in Ore., Wash. next week

(KGW) Fire crews, police and health officials in the Portland Metro area next week will simulate a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon. “The incident is simulated, the sickness and death imagined, yet all involved will take it very seriously,” said Port of Portland spokeswoman Kama Simonds.

May 16, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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MIT summit to explore new approach to diseases

(TheBostonGlobe) More than 300 scientists will gather this weekend at MIT for the first international workshop devoted exclusively to exploring this simple idea: Approach diseases such as cancer and diabetes with an engineer’s mind-set, including thinking about cells as if they were software and hardware that can be rewired, debugged, programmed, and hacked.

May 16, 2013
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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H1N1 discovered in marine mammals

(EurekAlert) Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine Read More »

May 16, 2013
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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DHS Standardized Test and Evaluation of Biological Threat Agent Detectors

(GlobalBiodefense) The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected Health Research Inc. with the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health to develop standard test methods to support field evaluation of technologies used for biological agent detection. The proposed work will address current gaps in standards by defining field testing needs, methods and Read More »

May 15, 2013
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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RFQ – BioSafety Level 4 Protective Suits

(GlobalBiodefense) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) has been charged with performing integrated research requiring special positive protection suits for biological high containment laboratories.

May 14, 2013
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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