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Op-Ed – More BTWC Education Needed for Life Scientists

(VBC Blog) State Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) have agreed since the Second Review Conference in 1986 that educating life scientists about the BTWC would strengthen the prohibition norm. Although, in 2005 when they met to discuss codes of conduct for scientists, it became clear from statements by governments and the  Read More »

Atlanta centre to train India’s top scientists to contain public health threats

(The Times of India) NEW DELHI: India’s top scientists are going back to school to become “disease detectives”. Beginning 2012, around 10 Indian scientists will be trained at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta’s special “Epidemic Intelligence Service Programme” (EIS), which was started in 1951 following biological warfare concerns triggered by the  Read More »

India’s National Institute of Virology Builds Hi-tech Virus Lab

(ExpressIndia) — Going a step further in research on agents of dangerous diseases to tackle any outbreak or exigencies like biological terror, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) is giving final touches to the Bio Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory on its Pashan campus. Highly dangerous viruses will be locked inside the BSL-4 lab, which has  Read More »

Polio Can Be Beaten If U.S. Protects Worldwide Vaccination Efforts

Smallpox, which claimed 2 million lives in 1967, was stamped out by 1980 through an enormous vaccine campaign. Today the world has a shot at a second such triumph, this time over polio. It will take more than good medicine to succeed. …

Breivik: Wanted to use Anthrax but didn’t know how

OSLO: The manifesto of the man charged in the Norway attacks spells out plans for using anthrax as part of his war to defend Europe against what he called the rising threat of Muslim domination. But experts in biological weapons said the manifesto

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