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Mayor Menino to lead tour of controversial BU biolab in South End

(Boston.com) In August, BU sought a waiver from the state to proceed with research on the less hazardous materials in a biosafety level-2 lab in a section of the facility. The university plans to eventually use about 16 percent of the building as a biosafety …

January 11, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Biosecurity board asked to review bird flu research

(USA TODAY) Federal officials have asked a biosecurity scientist panel to broadly review bird flu transmission research for public health concerns. The review follows the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity’s (NSABB) last month calling for withholding of details of two potentially-dangerous bird flu studies. An expert panel under the National Institutes of Health, the Read More »

January 11, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Paraguay emergency tackles crisis over cattle disease outbreak

(UPI.com) The outbreaks, mostly said to be spreading foot-and-mouth disease on farms but causing other health complications, began last year. Prevention and recovery has been slow and decimated local rural economies in many areas, published data indicated. …

January 10, 2012
| Filed under South America, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Biological indecision

(Malcolm Dando | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) The December 2011 Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva was widely expected to significantly strengthen international measures in the prohibition regime against weapons of mass destruction. After all, the review came after a series of constructive annual meetings in the second Intersessional Read More »

January 10, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Philippines Leads Asia-Pacific Biological Weapons Dialogue in Geneva

(ISRIA) The Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Philippines had actively participated in the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC RevCon) held …