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NIAID Issues Contract For Advanced Work on Smallpox-Marburg Virus Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued a contract to a Danish biotechnology firm to finance advanced research of experimental vaccines that could be used against both the Marburg and smallpox viruses. “This new contract will support the advanced development of candidate vaccine components and technologies that accelerate  Read More »

David Hoffman: Why did they do it?

(Foreign Policy) Looking back, one of the most unsettling phenomenon of the Cold War was the extent to which the superpowers, locked in existential confrontation, failed to see each other clearly. From the bomber and missile “gaps” of the 1950s to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the so-called “window of vulnerability” of the late  Read More »

EU Sets Restrictions on Dual-Use Exports to Syria

(Global Security Newswire) European Union nations as of Sunday were prohibited from exporting to Syria select products that could be used in the production of chemical or biological warfare agents. The European Council on Friday signed off on a set of bans and restrictions on sales of luxury and “dual-use” items to the Middle Eastern  Read More »

Pentagon Readies Plans for Securing Syrian Chem, Bio Sites

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. armed forces have blueprinted how service members would carry out a number of potential missions related to Syria, including a possible instruction to secure sensitive chemical and biological installations in the internally embattled Middle Eastern nation, government sources said in a Thursday report by CNN. Insiders said a Defense Department  Read More »

US-India Bilateral Cooperation on Public Health and Research

(US Department of State) The United States and India continue to expand public health and biomedical research and programming, building upon more than fifty years of bilateral cooperation in the health sector. A number of recent developments highlight the positive momentum in health-related collaboration: U.S.-India Health Initiative: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sebelius travelled  Read More »

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