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State Department Elevates Office of Counterterrorism to Full Bureau

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. State Department on Wednesday announced the elevation of its counterterrorism office to a full-scale bureau in accordance with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call last year for a global effort “that is as nimble and adaptive” as the violent extremists it seeks to defeat. Establishing the Counterterrorism Bureau was one Read More »

January 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Flu Season

(Foreign Policy) 7, addressing the review summit on biological weapons. Concern reached such heights that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a surprise visit to Geneva on Dec. 7, addressing the review summit on biological weapons. No American official of her stature had attended the bioweapons summits in decades, and Clinton’s presence stunned observers.

January 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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FEMA Trained 93,500 Emergency Responders on WMD Readiness in 2011

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in 2011 helped prepare 93,500 state and jurisdictional emergency personnel in averting and managing the aftermath of a terrorist strike incorporating chemical , biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive substances, the Homeland Security Department said. Separately, the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and Read More »

January 5, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Science and Security Clash on Bird-Flu Papers

(Chronicle of Higher Education) Even within the board, the episode has brought to the surface worries that existing biosafety committees at academic institutions are not qualified to evaluate this kind of risk, and that the work is not being sufficiently evaluated until it nears …

January 5, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Paraguay confirms new foot-and-mouth outbreak

(AFP) ASUNCION — Major beef exporter Paraguay confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease Tuesday in the north of the country, four days after lifting a state of emergency imposed in the region in September. Daniel Rojas, head of the government’s …