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Indian Doctors to Train for WMD Response

Indian medical workers are to receive training from the government’s Defense Research and Development Organization on responding to a WMD attack, the Indian Express reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 4). The DRDO Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences is expanding its training efforts on dealing with chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological weapons strikes to Read More »

November 23, 2010
| Filed under South Asia, Biological Weapons, and Countermeasures
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Postal Service preparing bioterror response

The United States Postal Service has teamed up with state and local health departments to prepare for a mass distribution system by testing delivery of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention medication in case of anthrax attack. In December 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Read More »

November 18, 2010
| Filed under Countermeasures
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NIH Awards $10 Million For Microneedle Vaccine Patch

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $10 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization, to advance a technology for the painless, self-administration of flu vaccine using patches containing tiny microneedles that dissolve into the skin…

November 17, 2010
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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New Jersey Firm Wins $8.2M Biodefense Contract

The New Jersey biopharmaceutical firm Snowdon on Tuesday announced receiving a three-year Defense Department contract worth up to $8.2 million for the creation of biological warfare countermeasures (see GSN, Sept. 21). Experimental drugs developed for fighting particular disease agents would undergo testing in secured facilities at the Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens in New Read More »

November 11, 2010
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Research
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Concerns over bioterrorism grow

Recent concern about the growing threat of bioterrorism attacks that could strike cities throughout the world has led governments, militaries, and the biopharmaceutical industry to a heightened state of alert; in response to this threat, the United States is accelerating preparing institutions and procedures for the potential danger