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CDC Biolabs Could Receive Independent Scrutiny

(Global Security Newswire) Specialists with the U.S. Army or a separate organization could give new scrutiny to biological defense research facilities operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA Today reported on Monday. The move would follow descriptions by the newspaper of multiple operational glitches in technology intended to prevent any escape of  Read More »

Planned “Centers of Excellence” Aim to Lower WMD Threat

(Global Security Newswire) Governments seeking to reduce threats from WMD substances could receive assistance from eight “centers of excellence” now being developed, four specialists indicated on Friday at the United Nations in New York. The organizations would serve in part to advance consistent regulations aimed at enabling improved exchanges of data and lessons learned within  Read More »

Biodefense board takes on situational awareness, SNS tasks

(CIDRAP News) The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) during its meeting today took on two new tasks: to help guide federal efforts to improve situational awareness for potential public health emergencies and to help work out a strategy for improving and modernizing the management of the government’s Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). The requests came from  Read More »

U.S. Eyes Bioterrorism Threat

(The Diplomat) I wrote last month about the importance the U.S. government should place on the threat of biological, and how domestic politics risked hampering progress on one of the United States most pressing security issues. Congress has previously acknowledged the seriousness of the threat, with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee reporting to Congress  Read More »

The Evolution of Bird Flu, and the Race to Keep Up

(New York Times) On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead. The girl was the most recent documented victim of the influenza virus H5N1, a strain that has caused 606 known human  Read More »

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