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Bioweapon Countermeasure Progress Seen Within Half-Decade

(GSN Daily News) A significant number of experimental vaccines and other drugs for treating people exposed to biological weapons agents are due within a half-decade to undergo federal assessment, a U.S. Health and Human Services Department office said in a five-year plan issued on Tuesday (see GSN, Sept. 30). The department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Read More »

October 10, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Navy Continues Warship Biowarfare Protection Project

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Navy on Wednesday said it has installed biological defense technology on 50 warships, leaving 78 vessels to be similarly equipped (see GSN, Feb. 11). The Joint Biological Point Detection System, placed on the guided missile destroyer USS Ross last month, provides the capacity for “near real-time biological warfare agent detection, Read More »

October 7, 2011
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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BARDA: Many biodefense products to mature within 5 years

(CIDRAP) In large part the new plan reflects the goals and recommendations of a major HHS review of the nation's biodefense efforts released in August 2010: the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review: Transforming the Enterprise to …

October 7, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Einstein Montefiore Bioethicist Helped Shape New Institute Of Medicine Report On Staging Antibiotics For Possible Anthrax Attack

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report last Friday that provides guidance to U.S. public health officials to develop plans to pre-position antibiotics that can be distributed to the general public in the case of a large-scale anthrax attack. Tia Powell, M.D…

October 6, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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USPS Reductions Won’t Affect its Door-to-Door Anthrax Response Capability

(Security Management) >A report published Friday examined US government programs in place to respond to a bioterror attack and the threat of anthrax as a weapon. The report, based on findings from a study conducted by the Institute of Medicine, …