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WHO will take a role in solving issued raised by bird flu studies controversy

(Winnipeg Free Press) The World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping the scientific and biosecurity communities sort through a controversy over the US government blocking full publication of two bird flu studies….

January 17, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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We need to fix the holey biosafety net

(New Scientist) PHYSICS lost its innocence on 16 July 1945, when researchers involved in the Manhattan Project witnessed the first detonation of an atomic bomb. Years later, Robert Oppenheimer recalled that he was haunted by a verse from the Hindu scripture, …</b

January 16, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Policy & Initiatives
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Recommendations for Avian Flu Research Access Expected in Weeks

(Global Security Newswire) The United States intends “within the next couple of weeks” to issue advisories on releasing sensitive information from recent bird flu studies to relevant officials and scientists, the journal Nature on Wednesday quoted a key U.S. official as saying. The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity last month urged scientific teams Read More »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Chicago’s new bio-attack response facility

(Homeland Security NewsWire) Chicago is preparing itself for a biological attack with the recent unveiling of a new 40,000 square-foot, fourteen story state-of the-art medical decontamination facility. Last Friday the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response at the Rush University Medical Center opened its doors for the first time.

January 13, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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BWC Meeting Makes Incremental Changes

(Arms Control Today) As most observers expected, the states-parties did not narrow their differences on contentious issues relating to treaty compliance and verification at the three-week conference in Geneva. Other areas had been seen as more likely to produce agreement. For example, some key states had pushed for a strengthened “intersessional process,” the annual meetings Read More »