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North Korea’s Other Weapons Threat

(The Diplomat) But Pyongyang’s growing chemical and biological weapons capabilities are worrying Seoul. North Korea’s latent nuclear weapons program is rightfully the main point of concern for its neighbors and the international community. But far less publicized is …

Livestock treatment debated at Supreme Court

(CNN) The meat industry says being forced to immediately euthanize all nonambulatory animals would hurt its ability to detect and fight one particularly virulent disease: foot-and-mouth, which is highly contagious. The industry says federal inspection is …

Exercise focuses on potential N. Korea biological, chemical attack

(Stars and Stripes) CAMP CASEY, South Korea – U.S. and South Korean military officials huddled in operations centers over the past two weeks going over, in great detail, how they would respond to a chemical or biological attack from North Korea. While many details of the exercise are classified, 2nd Infantry Division officials said the  Read More »

SLU terror-readiness program is world-renown

(KSDK) In fact, the head of Saint Louis University’s Institute for Biosecurity has serious doubts about the government’s official explanation in that famous case. The FBI closed the investigation into the anthrax letter attacks in the fall of 2001 that killed …

China’s worsening hog disease fueling US exports

(CattleNetwork.com) Two major afflictions, foot and mouth disease and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, have forced Chinese hog farmers to slaughter animals to contain outbreak, Rabobank said. That’s led to a drop of about 15 percent in prices for …

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