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View Post: Twelfth Bough: bringing home the bacon
28 Nov 2009 by A. Peasant  
As medical resources needed for supportive care of botulism in a bioterrorist event may quickly overwhelm the local healthcare systems, biodefense research efforts have been directed towards the development of a vaccine to prevent ...
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View Post: ndl news: Biodefense and Bioterrorism
9 Aug 2009 by Best-Mature  
Biodefense involves medical measures to protect people against biological agents. This means medicines and vaccinations. It also means medical research and preparations to defend against bioterrorist attacks. ...
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View Post: FrontPage Magazine - Bioterrorism's Deadly Math
3 Nov 2008 by Judith Miller  
But the Strategic National Stockpile has virtually removed the disease from the list of America's bioterrorism concerns, according to James W. LeDuc, associate director of the University of Texas's Galveston National Laboratory. ... Yet another advance is the crown jewel of the Department of Homeland Security's biodefense effort: a vast research complex at Fort Detrick, an hour's drive from the capital, centered on the new National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures ...
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View Post: NIAID To Fight Emerging Infectious Diseases From Bioterrorism ...
9 Nov 2009 by admin  
Topics: bioterrorism, CCHI, Health Care, human immune reponse, Immune Mechanisms of Virus Control, IMVC, infectious diseases, National Institutes of Health, Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense, U.S., United States ...
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View Post: 'Breeding Bio Insecurity' argues for change in biodefense policy ...
11 Nov 2009 by chughes3  
The expansion of the biodefense program after Sept. 11 and its clandestine nature make the centers more susceptible to lethal accidents or theft. The book asserts that the only way to truly defend the country from bioterrorism is ...
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View Post: War on Terrorism: CBR Weapons and WMD Terrorism News, November 20 ...
21 Nov 2009 by Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.)  
"Mandates included in new federal legislation could impair the ability of U.S. laboratories to conduct important biodefense research, according to [the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which] earlier this month submitted a letter .... He was speaking to Gulf News on the sidelines of an Interpol training session on preventing bioterrorism, hosted by the ministry. [...] Thirty UAE officials, from various forces, including the police, rescue and emergency ...
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View Post: Biodefense » Blog Archive » WMD Commission progress report
23 Nov 2009 by mjohnsh  
... to Prevent Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism” looks at the US government's attempts to address threats and their assessment is that the US is failing to address its most urgent threat – bioterrorism. ...
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View Post: Commission Report Finds U.S. Unprepared for Bioterror Attacks ...
21 Oct 2009 by Christopher Weber  
President Obama's National Security Council has no senior political appointees with a biodefense background. "That was not the case in the Clinton and Bush administrations," the report says. • Programs created after the 9/11 attacks to develop and buy vaccines and drugs to prevent and respond ... Commission Chairman Bob Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida, warns the White House to act more aggressively on the bioterror threat because, "the clock is ticking. ...
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View Post: LifeGen.de - Out of control: Labs under bioterrorist and pandemic ...
8 Nov 2009
Worst of all, security lacks could initiate a new bioterrorist threat coming from inside western countries – not because of Baxter, but because it became evident that samples can be out of routine control even if belonging to pharmaceutical .... last week an article explaining from a microbiological point of view why Ivins may not be the sole culprit – security lacks and information gaps in one of Americas best protected biodefense labs seem to be part of this puzzle. ...
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View Post: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Biohazard: Why U.S. ...
16 Oct 2009
We think that the race to develop countermeasures to biological weapons might have actually increased the probability of a bioterrorist attack and made it more difficult to achieve the kind of international cooperation that can truly ... at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. They are the co-authors of Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure, which comes out Oct. 15. ...
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