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Fort Detrick’s $10 million fire

(The Frederick News) A welder’s torch may have sparked a fire that caused $10 million in damage at the world’s largest high-security research lab, still under construction at Fort Detrick, according to a report prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The two-alarm blaze started Aug. 14, 2013, at the U.S. Army Medical Research Read More »

March 16, 2014
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Sens. Blunt, McCaskill praise passage of biosecurity resolution

(Bio Prep Watch) U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) praised the passage on Thursday of a resolution that highlighted the importance of biosecurity and agro-defense to U.S. national and economic security. The resolution stated that the U.S. must not forget the safety, security and health of its livestock and agriculture commodities. It Read More »

March 16, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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RFI – Identification of Diagnostic Devices for Biological Threats

(Global Biodefense) The Department of Defense is collecting information from companies who are currently in the U.S. domestic healthcare market or are considering a future entry into the market for FDA-cleared diagnostics for human diseases caused by exposure to biological threat agents. The Request for Information (RFI) submission period originally closed in January of this Read More »

March 13, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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Notre Dame chemists discover new class of antibiotics

(Notre Dame News) A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Their research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in Read More »

March 11, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Obama Seeks ‘Final’ Funds to Build Kansas Biodefense Site

(Global Security News Wire) The Obama administration this week asked Congress for a $300 million “final” appropriation to construct a new biodefense laboratory in Kansas.The money is the last that officials would need to finish building the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kan., the U.S. Homeland Security Department said in its budget request Read More »