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BWC Meeting Makes Incremental Changes

(Arms Control Today) As most observers expected, the states-parties did not narrow their differences on contentious issues relating to treaty compliance and verification at the three-week conference in Geneva. Other areas had been seen as more likely to produce agreement. For example, some key states had pushed for a strengthened “intersessional process,” the annual meetings Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Anthrax jabs stockpiled in biological terrorism alert

(Evening Standard) Britain is building up stocks of vaccine to cope with an anthrax attack at the Olympics, the Standard can reveal. The Government is replenishing its anthrax jabs stockpile in time for April to safeguard the 2012 Games as part of London’s biggest security operation. The supply of inoculations to combat anthrax poisoning to Read More »

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Philippines may host bioweapons conference in 2012

(GMA News) A regional Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) may be held in the Philippines later this year, to support the Philippines' international cooperative efforts for dealing with biological weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. …

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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The nuclear, biological and climate threat – 2011 reviewed

(EurekAlert!) Gerald Epstein, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy (CSIS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that 2011 saw progress on approaches to address biological threats posed by non-state groups at both the Seventh Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference and the G8 Global Partnership Against the Read More »

January 9, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Recently Discovered Compound Can Curb Pox Virus Duplication

(Global Security Newswire ) Researchers have pinpointed a new compound that has the ability to curb virus duplication, which could promote development of new countermeasures for smallpox and other pox viruses, Asian News International reported on Wednesday. Smallpox, which is considered a potential bioterrorism agent, and other pox viruses spread through the body via replication.