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Darpa: Do Away With Antibiotics, Then Destroy All Pathogens

(Wired – Danger Room) Last year, federal officials warned that Americans were on the verge of “a post-antibiotic era.” And that’s exactly what the Pentagon’s far-out research agency is after. As long as they’ve got a replacement at the ready, of course. In the military’s latest round of small business solicitations, Darpa is making a Read More »

November 21, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Anthrax reports yet to dent cattle trade

(The Observer) A suspected outbreak of anthrax in the Western district of Sheema is being treated as a false alarm, with traders in cattle products saying their businesses have not suffered even a dent from the reports. News that anthrax had hit Sheema, …

November 21, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, and Policy & Initiatives
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Need stressed for national biosafety framework

(DAWN.com) The conference titled “Building national biosafety and global ties” was the first international moot organised by the Pakistan Biological Safety Association (PBSA), a non-government organisation working to raise awareness about biosafety practices, …

November 21, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Bakgatla, govt trade spats over vet gate affair

(Mmegi Online) In what appeared like a stage-managed show, a government spokesman issued a public statement two days later saying government was concerned that Kgosi Kgafela may have compromised the campaign against the spread of foot and mouth disease. …

November 21, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, and Policy & Initiatives
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A decade after anthrax attacks, US biodefenses need improvement

(The Star-Ledger) Ten years after envelopes containing anthrax spores were dropped into a mailbox in Princeton, we still have a long way to go to improve our nation’s biodefenses. …