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Countering Biological Threats: National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Multinational Outbreak Response and Bioterrorism Investigation Demonstration
After-Action Report Tbilisi, Georgia, 17-19 May 2011 This workshop was organized by the US Department of Defense (US European Command, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) and the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Read More »
- May 27, 2011
- | Filed under Europe, North America, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025
Live Variola Virus: Considerations for Continuing Research
Smallpox was a devastating disease that plagued humankind throughout history. Its eradication in 1980 was a monumental achievement for the global health community. All acknowledged stocks of variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, or materials that might contain the virus, have been transferred to two World Health Organization approved repositories. During the period since Read More »
- May 24, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Featured, and Report
North Carolina State Biological Agent Registry
SESSION LAW 2001-469 HOUSE BILL 1472 Passed: January 10, 2002 In response to the potential threat of biological terrorism (BT) the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law that requires the registration of potentially dangerous biological agents. This legislation was enacted because of the recent anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001. Effective January 10, Read More »
- May 3, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Law, and 2001-2025
A Precarious “Hot Zone”–The President’s Plan to Combat Bioterrorism
SUMMARY — … With this most recent announcement, the President introduced Presidential Decision Directive 62 (PDD 62), which is to “create a new and more systematic approach to fighting the terrorist threat of the next century” and to clarify the roles of agencies and departments to ensure a coordinated approach to planning for such terrorist Read More »
- May 3, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Commentary, Law, and 1976-2000
Legal Impediments to Surveillance for Biological Threats and Countering Terrorism
Abstract — The law observes jurisdictional boundaries as well as national and state boundaries, unlike biological agents. The threat of biological agents cannot be successfully controlled through surveillance technologies without removing the current impediments to a national public health approach. Public health law, traditionally and constitutionally a reserved power of the states, leaves our national Read More »
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