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Reforms Seen Failing to Rescue U.S. Biodefense Drug Efforts

(GSN Daily News) Organizational problems and funding shortfalls continue to hinder U.S. efforts to develop and produce vaccines and other treatments for use following a potential act of bioterrorism, despite three attempts to overhaul the system since the 1990s, the New York Times reported on Wednesday (see GSN, Sept. 27).

How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?

(New York Times) A few days after 9/11, a retired Air Force colonel named Randall Larsen entered the northwest gate of the White House, crossed a courtyard to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, stepped through the front door and stopped dead in his tracks. In place of the usual security checkpoint, there was an elaborate  Read More »

Army Lab Left Anthrax Widely Reachable Prior to Mailings

(Global Security Newswire) Protective measures in place at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in 2001 would not have prevented any staffer or short-term employee from leaving the facility with enough anthrax bacteria to cultivate the spores used to …

Lab Fight Raises US Security Issues

(New York Times) Synthetic biology — which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria — became a focus of government and law enforcement agencies after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that quickly followed it. …

Pakistan Updates Bio, Nuke Export Control Lists

Pakistan said this week it has updated its lists of export restrictions intended to deter the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons and their means of delivery (see GSN, July 15). (GSN Daily News) A press release from the Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry does not provide details on the revisions to the lists of controlled  Read More »

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