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Virologists form Global Virus Response Network

Leading medical virologists from around the world today signed up to join a new Global Virus Response Network – a first-of-its-kind international scientific alliance that aims to be a leading global authority on viral disease. Two days of organizational meetings at the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC, culminated in a signing ceremony 3 March during  Read More »

Italy: New Program Looks at Biosecurity

MILAN (AP) — The threat is all too real, experts say: foreign insects introduced in an area with no natural defenses with the aim of destabilizing the economy, food supply or both. A new €6 million ($8.2 million) project funded by the European Commission will study both how to prevent and respond to biological threats  Read More »

More Talk, Better Security: The Need For Wider Debate On Strengthening The BWC

BY MALCOLM DANDO–There is an old joke that always makes me smile. It goes something like this: A visitor to Ireland was in Cork and needed to get to Dublin quickly, so he asked a local what the best way to drive was. The answer came back after a short pause for thought: “If I  Read More »

Kazakh Opposition Worried by Biodefense Lab

A U.S.-funded biodefense laboratory under construction in Kazakhstan created a stir today among opposition officials in the Central Asian nation who demanded to know why they had not been previously notified of the facility, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, March 31, 2010). The Central Reference Laboratory in Almaty is intended to support worldwide efforts to  Read More »

U.S. to Buy Japanese-Made Smallpox Vaccine

The United States could spend as much as $34 million for doses of a smallpox vaccine produced in Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported today (see GSN, Dec. 9, 2010). The Chemo-Sero Therapeutic Research Institute said it has a five-year agreement with the U.S. government. The institutes’s vaccine was first created some four decades ago, but  Read More »

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