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Possible Select Agent Reshuffle Adheres to Biosecurity Panel Findings

(Global Security Newswire) The order was delivered in part to address mounting concerns about US biosecurity policy and procedures. An influx of funding for biodefense activities over the last decade produced worries about the ever-increasing number of sites and personnel …

Einstein Montefiore Bioethicist Helped Shape New Institute Of Medicine Report On Staging Antibiotics For Possible Anthrax Attack

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report last Friday that provides guidance to U.S. public health officials to develop plans to pre-position antibiotics that can be distributed to the general public in the case of a large-scale anthrax attack. Tia Powell, M.D…

Officials: U.S. Better Prepared to Respond to Biological Attacks

WASHINGTON — A decade after the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, the United States is more ready to rapidly distribute medical countermeasures to save a population or a large city in the event of a major biological strike, key Obama administration officials said on Tuesday (see GSN, Oct. 4). (Oct. 5) – U.S. military personnel  Read More »

USPS Reductions Won’t Affect its Door-to-Door Anthrax Response Capability

(Security Management) >A report published Friday examined US government programs in place to respond to a bioterror attack and the threat of anthrax as a weapon. The report, based on findings from a study conducted by the Institute of Medicine, …

Funding Cuts Seen Endangering Biothreat Response Network

(Global Security Newswire) Budget reductions could undermine a program designed in part to facilitate coordination between US laboratories responding to an act of bioterrorism, an organization of medical research facilities said on Tuesday (see GSN, Sept. 6). …

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