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House Backs Amendment on Maintaining WMD Response Teams

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved without dissent an amendment to its fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill aimed at preventing the elimination of two National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, one lawmaker announced. The Defense Department suggested dissolving two separate teams in New York and Florida in Read More »

May 18, 2012
| Filed under North America and Policy & Initiatives
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Anthrax vaccine trial meets bioethicists

(Nature News Blog) An anthrax vaccine would protect civilians from the long-term effects of a bioterrorist attack. But there’s no telling how children would react to the shots. To assess the ethics of a trial, in which kids would get an anthrax vaccine unlikely to ever be necessary, a federal committee met today in Washington Read More »

May 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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With NATO in town, hospitals brace for bioterrorism

(Crain’s Chicago Business) While many downtown office workers worry about commuting headaches during the NATO summit, two Chicago hospital systems are prepared for far worse possibilities. The University of Chicago Medical Center and the Cook County Health and Hospitals System will both have decontamination areas set up outside their buildings to treat victims of potential Read More »

May 18, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Bioterrorism, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Health Experts Narrow the Hunt for Ebola

(Infection Control Today)Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, according to a consortium of wildlife health experts.

May 18, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Fuel ‘crisis’ hampers anthrax vaccination exercise

(Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) The Upper East Regional Director of Veterinary Service, Dr. Thomas Anyorikeya says, the main challenge facing the vaccination of animals in the area following the outbreak of anthrax is how to fuel vehicles to move into communities. Dr. Anyorikeya said though his outfit has presented budget to that effect only one District Read More »