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Bio attack on food supply increasingly attractive to terrorists, says expert

(Government Security News) A low-tech biological attack on the US cattle industry using the virulent foot and mouth disease, said a terrorism expert, could be an easy, uncomplicated method to cripple the already-weakened economy. In an article in the February issue of the FBI’s …

Study simulates effects of foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Mexico

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In a worst-case scenario simulation of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Mexico, researchers found that establishing a good surveillance system and raising a more resilient breed of cattle could lessen the blow to the Mexican cattle industry should an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease or other  Read More »

Obama Budget Would Shift Funds From Project Bioshield

(Global Security Newswire) The White House’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal would shift hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal program to promote development of medical countermeasures against WMD threats to the initiative’s parent agency, Nature reported on Wednesday. Project Bioshield was established in 2004 as a $5.6 billion war chest for the purchase of  Read More »

Many in NY cheer delay of animal disease lab move

(Wall Street Journal) “The prospect of taking a wrecking ball to a multimillion-dollar Homeland Security investment in the study of foot-and-mouth disease at Plum Island to accommodate another several hundred million-dollar research lab right in the middle of cattle country …

New bird flu strain poses serious threat

(Viet Nam News) Viet Nam is considered to be endemically infected with H5N1, with outbreaks detected in poultry in a number of provinces across the country in 2011. Therefore this is not a resurgence of the disease. H5N1 viruses will likely continue to persist and be …

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