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Funding Constraints Will Greatly Impact Public Health Readiness

(Emergency Management) Anthrax. Pandemics. Food poisonings. All of the aforementioned are the bailiwick of public health preparedness programs across the United States. Programs implemented by public health preparedness programs since 2001 include: the development of various …

Study simulates effects of foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Mexico

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In a worst-case scenario simulation of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Mexico, researchers found that establishing a good surveillance system and raising a more resilient breed of cattle could lessen the blow to the Mexican cattle industry should an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease or other  Read More »

Obama Budget Would Shift Funds From Project Bioshield

(Global Security Newswire) The White House’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal would shift hundreds of millions of dollars from a federal program to promote development of medical countermeasures against WMD threats to the initiative’s parent agency, Nature reported on Wednesday. Project Bioshield was established in 2004 as a $5.6 billion war chest for the purchase of  Read More »

US ‘very closely’ watching Syrian chemical weapons

(The Associated Press) US intelligence officials in the past have said Syria has conducted biological weapons-related research but have stopped short of saying the country had taken the next step and built bioweapons. The task of securing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s …

Many in NY cheer delay of animal disease lab move

(Wall Street Journal) “The prospect of taking a wrecking ball to a multimillion-dollar Homeland Security investment in the study of foot-and-mouth disease at Plum Island to accommodate another several hundred million-dollar research lab right in the middle of cattle country …

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