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Bioweapon Countermeasure Progress Seen Within Half-Decade

(GSN Daily News) A significant number of experimental vaccines and other drugs for treating people exposed to biological weapons agents are due within a half-decade to undergo federal assessment, a U.S. Health and Human Services Department office said in a five-year plan issued on Tuesday (see GSN, Sept. 30). The department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Read More »

October 10, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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First International VBC Conference: Video Available

The First Virtual Biosecurity Center international conference, 1 September 2011, can be accessed here. This conference explored the role of web-based networks in promoting global biosecurity, and provided an opportunity for experts from around the world to identify best practices and partnerships, and determine the feasibility of linking existing networks for global communication.

October 7, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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BARDA: Many biodefense products to mature within 5 years

(CIDRAP) In large part the new plan reflects the goals and recommendations of a major HHS review of the nation's biodefense efforts released in August 2010: the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review: Transforming the Enterprise to …

October 7, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Einstein Montefiore Bioethicist Helped Shape New Institute Of Medicine Report On Staging Antibiotics For Possible Anthrax Attack

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report last Friday that provides guidance to U.S. public health officials to develop plans to pre-position antibiotics that can be distributed to the general public in the case of a large-scale anthrax attack. Tia Powell, M.D…

October 6, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Officials: U.S. Better Prepared to Respond to Biological Attacks

WASHINGTON — A decade after the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, the United States is more ready to rapidly distribute medical countermeasures to save a population or a large city in the event of a major biological strike, key Obama administration officials said on Tuesday (see GSN, Oct. 4). (Oct. 5) – U.S. military personnel Read More »