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Fact Sheet on the Successful Conclusion of the Seventh Review Conference of …

(Whitehouse.gov) During the next five years experts will address, inter alia, capacity-building in biosafety and biosecurity, preparedness, response, and crisis management; States Parties also decided that a database system to facilitate requests and offers for …

Outcomes Related to the 7th Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review …

(US Department of State) And these will include such topics as biosafety, biosecurity, preparedness, surveillance, response, and crisis management. Now, so the specifics are not covered in the final document, but of course the United States has a well established set of …

Biomedical experiments and public safety

(NPR – The Diane Rehm Show) Two leading scientific journals have been asked not to publish details of research into the deadly bird flu virus. The research involved creating a highly transmissible version of H5N1. The scientists hope to gain valuable data that could lead to a vaccine. But the National Science Advisory Board for  Read More »

The Erosion of U.S. Emergency Preparedness

(Huffington Post) Since September 11 and anthrax, we’ve released the “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism”; in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Over the past ten years, the report has documented how …

Preparedness report card spells out programs at risk for cuts

(CIDRAP) Public health programs that detect and respond to bioterror events and disease outbreaks are at risk from federal and state budget cuts, a threat that could worsen over the next year if automatic across-the-board cuts kick …

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