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Highlights & Happenings 2007
Highlights & Happenings provides brief, informative updates on important events and newsworthy items related to biosecurity and bioterrorism. It covers a broad array of topics, including, for example, new advances in bioresearch that could affect national security, the status of biopreparedness and response, emerging legal issues affecting vaccine and other countermeasure development and delivery, and Read More »
- February 22, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Other, and 2001-2025
Planning for Exercises of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Forensic Capabilities
A forensic capability to help identify perpetrators and exclude innocent people should be an integral part of a strategy against terrorist attacks. Exercises have been conducted to increase our preparedness and response capabilities to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) terrorist attacks. However, incorporating forensic components into these exercises has been deficient. CBRN investigations rely Read More »
- February 22, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Other, and 2001-2025
Breaking the Deadlock Over Destruction of the Smallpox Virus Stocks
One of the longest and most contentious policy debates in the field of international health has swirled around the fate of the last known stocks of variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, which are held in 2 World Health Organization (WHO)-authorized repositories in the United States and Russia. After a global campaign under WHO Read More »
- February 22, 2012
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Commentary, Other, and 2001-2025
Mass Prophylaxis Dispensing Concerns: Traffic and Public Access to PODs Mass Prophylaxis Dispensing Concerns: Traffic and Public Access to PODs
The ability to quickly dispense postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) using multiple points of dispensing (PODs) following a bioterrorism event could potentially save a large proportion of those who were exposed, while failure in PEP dispensing could have dire public health consequences. A Monte Carlo simulation was developed to explore the traffic flow and parking around PODs Read More »
- February 22, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Other, and 2001-2025
Is H5N1 Really Highly Lethal?
“How lethal are H5N1 influenza viruses to humans? The answer to this question is central to the current debate over research on genetically modified H5N1 viruses. In an effort to determine if highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 was capable of becoming easily transmissible between mammals, researchers in the Netherlands modified H5N1 viruses to make them Read More »
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