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U.S. Eliminates up to 2M Anthrax Vaccine Doses Yearly: Homeland Security

(Global Security Newswire) A senior U.S. Homeland Security Department official on Tuesday said the federal government eliminates as many as 2 million doses of stockpiled anthrax vaccine that have passed their expiration date, Fierce Homeland Security reported. Anthrax vaccine doses are stored alongside other medical countermeasures against disease outbreaks and WMD attacks within the Strategic Read More »

April 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Up to $48M of expired anthrax vaccine thrown out annually, says DHS official

(Fierce Homeland Security) Up to 2 million doses of expired anthrax vaccination worth $48 million gets thrown out annually from the federal stockpile, said a Homeland Security Department official during an April 17 congressional hearing. The Center for Disease Control stores anthrax vaccines as part of the Strategic National Stockpile of emergency medical countermeasures to Read More »

April 20, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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U.S. Navy Upgrades Ships’ Bio, Chem Detectors

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. Navy intends four years from now to have installed on close to half of its ships fast-acting systems to detect and analyze potential biological warfare materials, the Virginian-Pilot reported on Thursday. The technology is already being placed on ships in San Diego and Norfolk, Va. Roughly 130 ships would as Read More »

April 20, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Research
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The trouble with American military laboratories

(Democracy & Freedom Watch) TBILISI – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem? According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international network of infectious disease surveillance laboratories whose mission Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Taking Measure of Countermeasures: Protecting the Protectors

(defpro) Good afternoon, Chairman Bilirakis, Ranking Member Richardson and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. It is an honor to testify before you today on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts regarding medical countermeasures (MCM) for first responders. As you are aware, the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) provides health and medical expertise in support Read More »