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Russia Orders WMD-Resistant Infant Carriers

(Global Security Newswire) The Russian Federal Security Service has called for production of over 100 special carriers intended to safeguard infant children of high-level government personnel in the event of a chemical, biological or nuclear strike, Russia Today reported on Thursday. The carriers are constructed from a unique dispersion substance and are designed to prevent Read More »

May 28, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Europe targets superbugs with public-private effort

(Nature News Blog) The growing threat from antibiotic resistance met the era of the public-private partnership on 24 May as the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched a new seven-year effort to bring academic and industry researchers together to work on the problem. Dubbed NewDrugs4BadBugs, the call for proposals is supported by a €223.7 Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Outgoing superintendent of the Center for Domestic Preparedness praised for ‘right decisions’

(Anniston Star) While delivering a speech to local leaders and CDP staff and trainees, Jones said the biggest expansion during his time at the center was adding live biological agents to CDP’s training and giving trainees first-hand experience of dealing with mass-casualty disaster and acts of biological terrorism. “We’re better for it, and what we Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Detecting biological terror agents

(Homeland Security NewsWire) PositiveID Corporation is testing its M-BAND bioagent detection system in preparation for DHS’s $3 billion BioWatch procurement; M-BAND can be remotely set to detect for DNA-based pathogens alone, with or without either RNA-based organisms or toxins, or for all three types of pathogens simultaneously at remotely programmable intervals.

May 24, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Taking the Pulse of CDC’s PulseNet

(Food Safety News) This week at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Laboratories in Seattle, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – which operates PulseNet – explained the crucial role this pathogen database plays in outbreak detection and the challenges that must be met in order for it to Read More »