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Limited Progress Seen at Biological Weapons Convention Review Meeting

(Global Security Newswire) Delegates to last month’s Biological Weapons Convention review conference achieved consensus on a number of updates to decision-making and trust-building mechanisms for the pact, but agreement was limited in those areas and fully lacking on other matters, official participants and independent experts said. Nations represented at the meeting approved certain reforms to Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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S Korea to help disease-control project in Myanmar

(Xinhua) South Korea will provide 3 million US dollars for the foot and mouth disease control project under a cooperation program of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Myanmar, KOICA sources told Xinhua Thursday. …

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agriculture, and International
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Syrian Chemical, Biological Arms Worry Israel

(Global Security Newswire) A high-level Israeli armed forces officer on Tuesday said his country was alarmed over the fate of Syria’s chemical and biological warfare stocks after the potential fall of the Assad regime, Agence France-Presse reported. “The question is when, not if” the Assad government is brought down by continued protest efforts, Israeli armed Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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Killer flu creators lash out at US ‘censorship’

(RT) Fouchier initially wanted to publish his research so as to prepare humanity for a potential outbreak of the artificially-made virus, but the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) got involved and asked him to withhold some …

January 18, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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WHO will take a role in solving issued raised by bird flu studies controversy

(Winnipeg Free Press) The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping the scientific and biosecurity communities sort through a controversy over the US government blocking full publication of two bird flu studies….