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Nightmare state of anti-bioterror plan

(New York Post) An ambitious federal program to protect big cities from biological attacks is running six years late and $3.7 billion over its projected cost — and nobody has been able to make it work, The Post has learned. A new federal report discloses that Department of Homeland Security chiefs in Washington have long Read More »

September 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Anthrax Vaccine Trial Distribution Could Begin in 2013

(Emergency Management) Nonmilitary emergency personnel could be offered the anthrax vaccine in early 2013, as part of an Obama administration plan to distribute unused federal stocks of the vaccine. The trial program would examine the potential of distributing the countermeasure to first responders who volunteer to participate in the initiative. At a joint hearing on Read More »

September 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Scientists bid to develop anthrax vaccine to counteract world bioterrorism threat

(Medical Xpress) Working with scientists from the Republic of Georgia, Turkey and the USA, Professor Les Baillie from Cardiff University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is leading a NATO project to tackle the potential misuse of anthrax. “Currently the majority of the world’s population is susceptible to infection with Bacillus anthracis the bacterium which Read More »

September 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Bio-weapon surveillance system under attack in Beltway

(Fox News) Terrorist organizations continue to call for biological weapons attacks on the U.S., experts warn, yet our early warning system for bioterrorism is under attack in the Beltway. BioWatch, launched in 2003 as the nation’s first early detection and warning system for biological attacks, scans for dangerous pathogens in urban areas and at key Read More »

September 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Research
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Deadly African Ebola Virus Linked to Bushmeat

(Food Safety News) “There’s a live animal caught in a poacher’s snare!” yelled Isaac Maina as he took off running through the bush to reach it. Maina leads the African Network for Animal Welfare’s monthly “desnaring” operations, removing snares in areas of Kenya where poaching is rampant. Guns are illegal for most people in Kenya, Read More »