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Fact Sheet on the Successful Conclusion of the Seventh Review Conference of …

(Whitehouse.gov) During the next five years experts will address, inter alia, capacity-building in biosafety and biosecurity, preparedness, response, and crisis management; States Parties also decided that a database system to facilitate requests and offers for …

December 27, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Outcomes Related to the 7th Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review …

(US Department of State) And these will include such topics as biosafety, biosecurity, preparedness, surveillance, response, and crisis management. Now, so the specifics are not covered in the final document, but of course the United States has a well established set of …

December 26, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Biological Weapons Convention Conference Issues Final Document

(Global Security Newswire) The seventh review conference for the Biological Weapons Convention ended on Thursday with a call for all member states to demonstrate their adherence to the accord’s rules, the United Nations announced. Participating states agreed to a revised reporting document that nations would submit annually as a means of promoting confidence that their Read More »

December 26, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Biomedical experiments and public safety

(NPR – The Diane Rehm Show) Two leading scientific journals have been asked not to publish details of research into the deadly bird flu virus. The research involved creating a highly transmissible version of H5N1. The scientists hope to gain valuable data that could lead to a vaccine. But the National Science Advisory Board for Read More »

December 23, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Should Scientific Journals Describe How Researchers Made a Killer Flu?

(TIME) H5N1 avian flu rarely infects humans, but it is deadly when it does. Since the virus first emerged in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, nearly 600 people have been infected worldwide and almost 60% have died. The virus isn’t very transmissible, but scientists have long worried that it might mutate, perhaps through reassortment Read More »