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US disease agency in fiscal peril

(Nature.com) Core funding is also used to maintain the Strategic National Stockpile, a repository of drugs reserved for fighting epidemics and bioterrorism. If Obama’s plan is enacted, the CDC’s congressionally controlled funding will have fallen by roughly 20% …

Plans stall for biodefence lab

(Nature.com) Livestock in the heart of US cattle country will be put at risk if foot-and-mouth disease escapes from the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. For Katharine Bossart, a trip to the lab can involve a 22-hour flight.

Webcast: H5N1 Research Discussion from the ASM Biodefense Meeting

Watch Tomorrow’s Complimentary Live Stream of the H5N1 Research Discussion from the ASM Biodefense Meeting! Moderated by the Chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), Paul Keim, Ph.D., this newly added session at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting will include discussions of the NSABB’s recommendations for the publication of  Read More »

Cutting-edge research dulled by lack of funding

(Denton Record Chronicle) In 2000, after more than a decade of research to genetically engineer and modify a toxin to target tumor cells, her team realized the cancer research had brought them to the doorstep of a vaccine for something else — ricin, an extremely toxic protein …

Suspect won’t have to pay Iowa for tests on powder

(Chicago Tribune) Iowa— A man who sent Bettendorf police a white powder he claimed was anthrax won’t have to pay to cover the state’s cost of testing the substance. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday vacated the $1400 restitution order for America …

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