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CSC to more cattle from Botswana

(Bulawayo24) The country clinched the first phase of the deal in July this year, a development that saw CSC slaughtering more than 25 000 cattle from the foot-and-mouth infested Zone VI in Botswana, which is along the border with Zimbabwe to curb the spread of the …

National Biosecurity Training Program for Swine Operations Now Available …

(Farmscape Online) A new national on-farm biosecurity training program for swine operations is now being rolled out in Alberta. The National Biosecurity Training Program for swine operations, based on the National Farm Level Biosecurity Standard developed by the Canadian …

Eco-Safe Announces New Bio-Terror Decontamination System …

(MarketWatch) At a Biological Weapons Convention last week in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the threat of biological attacks, saying the warning signs were “too serious to ignore.” She further identified the risk of a bio-weapons attack as …

Pentagon Analyzing Chem, Bio Defense Programs

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Defense Department in August initiated a “strategic review and analysis” of its defense operations against biological and chemical weapons threats, Defense News quoted a high-level Pentagon official as saying on Thursday (see GSN, Sept. 29, 2010). “We needed to relook the whole” of the department’s activities on biological and chemical  Read More »

Firm Sought “Overwhelming” Profit For Smallpox Drug

(GSN Daily News) U.S. government health officials involved in negotiating a contract for a smallpox antiviral were taken aback by the high drug price sought by a pharmaceutical company whose leading shareholder has links to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, CNN reported on Friday (see GSN, Nov. 28). SIGA Technologies in May received  Read More »

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