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EU calls for stronger anti-biological weapons Convention

New Europe – The Council of Europe has introduced its position for a forthcoming review conference, that will be held in December 2011 in Geneva. They stressed a need for a stronger Convention prohibiting biological weapons and co-operation with other states around …

July 20, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Malaysia Prepares Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Legislation

Malaysian officials are preparing legislation intended to help the country meet its nonproliferation obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention, Bernama reported on Tuesday (see GSN, Sept. 8, 2010). The bill is intended to ensure the secure management of disease agents without interfering with valid biological science efforts and rekated sectors, Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged Read More »

July 20, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Editorial: An auspicious moment for the BWC Review Conference?

(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) By Malcolm Dando — As I endeavored to write a positive take on the prospects for the upcoming Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in December, the proverb “There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip” kept coming to mind. In other words, a lot could still go Read More »

July 19, 2011
| Filed under Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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WHO Says World Better Prepare for Next Influenza Pandemic

(VOA News) The World Health Organization says the world is better prepared for the next influenza pandemic than it was in the past. More than 100 public health experts have wrapped up a three-day meeting in Geneva to review a Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines that was developed in 2006, and to develop a Read More »

July 18, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, and Public Health
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Op-Ed: Why One Health?

By Laura H. Kahn, M.D., M.P.P., General Internist and Research Scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. One Health is a concept that seeks to integrate human, animal, and environmental health since all are inextricably linked. This concept is not new Read More »