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Pentagon Readies Plans for Securing Syrian Chem, Bio Sites

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. armed forces have blueprinted how service members would carry out a number of potential missions related to Syria, including a possible instruction to secure sensitive chemical and biological installations in the internally embattled Middle Eastern nation, government sources said in a Thursday report by CNN. Insiders said a Defense Department Read More »

June 18, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Reduction Focus Shifts From Nukes to Bio Threats

(American Forces Press Service) WASHINGTON – The 21-year-old program to reduce weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union is shifting focus from nuclear to biological threats and from Russia to Southeast Asia and Africa, the assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs told a Senate panel yesterday. Madelyn R. Creedon said the Read More »

June 15, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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US-India Bilateral Cooperation on Public Health and Research

(US Department of State) The United States and India continue to expand public health and biomedical research and programming, building upon more than fifty years of bilateral cooperation in the health sector. A number of recent developments highlight the positive momentum in health-related collaboration: U.S.-India Health Initiative: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sebelius travelled Read More »

June 15, 2012
| Filed under North America, South Asia, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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International survey on laboratory safety launched

(Nature News Blog) The death of Sheharbano Sangji in 2008, following a fire in the chemistry department at the University of California, Los Angeles, triggered calls to improve academia’s safety standards not just at UCLA, but across the United States. Similar concerns were voiced last year when a young undergraduate student, Michele Dufault, died at Read More »

June 15, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Big NBAF Report Expected Friday

(KCUR) In a highly anticipated announcement, the National Academies of Science said that it will release a congressionally mandated report on risk associated with the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) this Friday. Stalled congressional funding is believed to be linked to the results of this report. The animal disease laboratory, under construction in Manhattan, Read More »