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IOM Study: Shipboard Hazard and Defense II (SHAD II)

From 1962-1973, more than 5,800 military personnel — mostly Navy personnel and Marines — participated in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents. Many of these tests used simulants, substances with the physical properties of chemical or biological warfare agents, which at Read More »

November 10, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Video: Re-energising Global Agricultural Productivity

(OECD) OECD Trade and Agriculture Director Ken Ash speaks with Rose O’Donovan, editor of Agra Focus and Agra Facts, about agricultural productivity, reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and ensuring global food security.

November 10, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Agriculture, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Florida judge wants to unseal anthrax case documents dealing with scientist …

(Washington Post) A federal judge is asking why records should remain sealed in a soon-to-be-settled lawsuit over the death of a Florida man in the 2001 anthrax attacks. US District Judge Daniel TK Hurley says in court papers the public generally has access rights to …

November 7, 2011
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, and Policy & Initiatives
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Response to Dr. Salzberg’s Commentary in Forbes

(Biosecurity Blog) A few comments on Dr. Steven Salzberg’s posting in Forbes on October 30: Link Testing the Anthrax Vaccine of Children: Getting the Facts Right I cannot comment on the wide range of opinions within the biodefense, public health, and medical communities regarding the testing of the anthrax vaccine on children, but I will Read More »

November 4, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Postal Service Taking Precautions Against New Bioterror Attacks

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Postal Service has implemented a number of security changes including more human and machine checks of questionable mail, 10 years after the anthrax mailings that killed five people and sparked a national panic, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday (see GSN, Oct. 6). The mail system was used in fall Read More »