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DHS Faces Research and Development Challenges Internally and Externally

(HSToday) In today’s fiscally constrained environment, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is assessing the best use of its money for research and development projects both inside and outside of the department. To that end, DHS has been careful to make certain it is investing wisely in its internal laboratories while relying on outside facilities  Read More »

Up to $48M of expired anthrax vaccine thrown out annually, says DHS official

(Fierce Homeland Security) Up to 2 million doses of expired anthrax vaccination worth $48 million gets thrown out annually from the federal stockpile, said a Homeland Security Department official during an April 17 congressional hearing. The Center for Disease Control stores anthrax vaccines as part of the Strategic National Stockpile of emergency medical countermeasures to  Read More »

U.S. Navy Upgrades Ships’ Bio, Chem Detectors

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. Navy intends four years from now to have installed on close to half of its ships fast-acting systems to detect and analyze potential biological warfare materials, the Virginian-Pilot reported on Thursday. The technology is already being placed on ships in San Diego and Norfolk, Va. Roughly 130 ships would as  Read More »

‘Green menace’ strikes California citrus

(Nature) A disease that has devastated the citrus industries in Florida, China, Brazil and elsewhere now threatens California’s US$2-billion-a-year crop. Last month, a lemon-pomelo hybrid tree in a Los Angeles-area yard tested positive for huanglongbing, or citrus greening, according to the Los Angeles Times. The bacterial disease is spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. California  Read More »

More efficient bioterrorism response plan

(Homeland Security NewsWire) In the event of a bioterror attack on a building (think: the 2011 anthrax attack on the offices of two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont), the current approach to decontamination is to clean up the building until no pathogens can be detected; researchers suggest, however,  Read More »

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