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Taking Measure of Countermeasures: Protecting the Protectors

(defpro) Good afternoon, Chairman Bilirakis, Ranking Member Richardson and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. It is an honor to testify before you today on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts regarding medical countermeasures (MCM) for first responders. As you are aware, the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) provides health and medical expertise in support  Read More »

IAFC Testifies Before Congress on Medical Countermeasures

(FireEngineering.com) Today, Chief Al Gillespie, IAFC president and chairman of the board, testified before members of Congress urging the U.S. government to take action in including first responders and their families in medical countermeasures required in the event of a pandemic or biological attack. The hearings, held by the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and  Read More »

Penniless Bulgaria to Give Up Building Turkish Border FMD Fence

(Novinite.com) Bulgaria’s government will reverse its decision to build a fence along its border with Turkey, a measure which was supposed to tackle the infiltration of foot-and-mouth disease-infected animals. This has been announced Tuesday night by the press service of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers, ahead of the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet on  Read More »

White House Responds to Congressman’s Questions About H5N1 Flu Papers

(Science AAAS) White House science adviser John Holdren has replied to questions asked last month by Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) about how the Obama Adminstration has handled the controversy surrounding two studies that showed how to make the H5N1 avian influenza virus transmissible between mammals. On 1 March, Sensenbrenner—a former head of the House of  Read More »

Flu Review Criticized

(Scientist) The process leading to the US biosecurity board recommending full publication of two controversial H5N1 flu papers has been criticized by a board member in a letter sent to the National Institutes of Health last week (April 12). Influenza epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, outlined his criticisms to Amy  Read More »

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