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Control on Bulgarian-Turkish border will be stepped up: agriculture minister

(Focus News) Tsarevo – Control on the Bulgarian-Turkish border will be stepped up after the Bulgarian government cancelled the construction of a facility against the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food Miroslav Naydenov said in the southeastern town of Tsarevo, cited by FOCUS – Burgas Radio. Both vets and forestry  Read More »

Dutch Government Set To Reconsider Restrictions On Bird Flu Study

(NPR blog) A Dutch virologist is considering his full range of legal options if his government refuses to lift the restrictions it has put on his controversial bird flu research, and matters could quickly come to a head after a meeting next Monday that will be attended by U. S. observers. The meeting will come  Read More »

U.S. Eliminates up to 2M Anthrax Vaccine Doses Yearly: Homeland Security

(Global Security Newswire) A senior U.S. Homeland Security Department official on Tuesday said the federal government eliminates as many as 2 million doses of stockpiled anthrax vaccine that have passed their expiration date, Fierce Homeland Security reported. Anthrax vaccine doses are stored alongside other medical countermeasures against disease outbreaks and WMD attacks within the Strategic  Read More »

BREAKING: US Accepts NSABB Recommendation to Publish H5N1 Flu Papers

(Science AAAS) The United States government has formally accepted a recommendation from a biosecurity advisory board to publish two controversial studies of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, moving the pair of papers another step closer to publication. The announcement came today in a statement from Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health,  Read More »

DHS Faces Research and Development Challenges Internally and Externally

(HSToday) In today’s fiscally constrained environment, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is assessing the best use of its money for research and development projects both inside and outside of the department. To that end, DHS has been careful to make certain it is investing wisely in its internal laboratories while relying on outside facilities  Read More »

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