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House Panel Gives Controversial Biodefense Lab a Boost

(Science Now) A U.S. House of Representatives committee today takes up a 2013 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would partly reverse deep cuts in the agency’s science and technology programs. It also provides $75 million for a controversial agricultural biodefense laboratory in Kansas that the Obama Administration had zeroed out  Read More »

Feds Offer $150000 Reward for White Powder Sender

(NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth) The FBI and U.S. postal inspectors are offering a $150,000 reward for information about the person who has mailed at least 380 white powder letters to schools, churches and businesses in North Texas and around the world since 2008. All the type-written letters have been postmarked from North Texas and have  Read More »

Breaking: US House Appropriations Committee Passes Funding for NBAF

(GardnerEDGE) Washington, DC – Congressman Kevin Yoder made the following statement today after the House Appropriations Committee passed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2013. The legislation includes $75 million for the construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, KS., and received broad bipartisan support. Representative Yoder is  Read More »

Fake anthrax outbreak tests state’s emergency readiness

(Wyoming Tribune) CHEYENNE – On Monday, the gym at Laramie County Community College gym became a place where people could go to get help. It was an important part of a full-scale drill simulating an anthrax attack. It was part of a statewide exercise dubbed “Operation Prairie Eagle.” In the drill, conducted for Wyoming’s emergency  Read More »

Exposed to Anthrax? In the Future, Your Shirt Could Provide Early Warning

(Nextgov) The Pentagon wants clothing and industrial paint to be built with covert chemical warfare detectors, so that it can better anticipate threats such as anthrax, a defense solicitation reveals. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the unit charged with reducing threats from biological warfare and nuclear weapons, is expressing “significant interest in materials that physically  Read More »

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