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UN, OIE call for more controls on rinderpest virus

(AFP) ROME — The UN’s food agency and the OIE called on countries on Monday to comply with a 2011 global moratorium and destroy potentially dangerous rinderpest virus samples or put them into safe storage. The deadly animal virus, which caused cattle plague, was the second viral disease in history to be wiped out after  Read More »

Congress Demanding Info on Biowatch Tech Troubles

(Global Security Newswire) A number of senior U.S. lawmakers from both parties are calling on the Homeland Security Department to provide them with internal documents on a program aimed at detecting a biological weapons attack, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday. A recent Times investigation highlighted a number of technological failings with the Biowatch  Read More »

Lawmakers call for answers on BioWatch security system

(Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders from both parties are pressing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to address newly raised questions about BioWatch, the nation’s system for detecting deadly biological attacks. In letters issued Thursday and last week, the leaders said their questions were prompted by a July 8 Los Angeles Times article that  Read More »

Cuba Reiterates Importance on Biological Weapons Convention

(Radio Cadena Agramonet) Geneva, Jul 19.- Cuba has insisted here in the importance of the strengthening and implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), whose objective is to prevent the development and proliferation of those arsenals. Addressing a BTWC meeting, Cuba representative Juan Antonio Quintanilla explained some actions his country has implemented to  Read More »

Scaled-back NBAF and NBAF as designed are options that could meet critical US lab needs

(e! Science News) It is “imperative” that the U.S. build a large-animal biocontainment laboratory to protect animal and public health, says a new report by the National Research Council. Two options that could meet long-term needs include the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) facility as currently designed, or a scaled-back version tied to a  Read More »

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