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By Region: North America

Africa and the Convention Banning Biological and Toxin Weapons

(AllAfrica.com) Africa is also the region where more could, and should, be done with regard to improving scientific research and diagnostic facilities and where biosafety measures remain insufficient and under-resourced. The establishment, as announced by South Africa during the 2009 Meeting of States Parties to the BTWC, of the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease  Read More »

Eco-Safe Announces New Bio-Terror Decontamination System …

(MarketWatch) At a Biological Weapons Convention last week in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the threat of biological attacks, saying the warning signs were “too serious to ignore.” She further identified the risk of a bio-weapons attack as …

Pentagon Analyzing Chem, Bio Defense Programs

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Defense Department in August initiated a “strategic review and analysis” of its defense operations against biological and chemical weapons threats, Defense News quoted a high-level Pentagon official as saying on Thursday (see GSN, Sept. 29, 2010). “We needed to relook the whole” of the department’s activities on biological and chemical  Read More »

Dangerous Results: Publish Or Not?

(Science 2.0) At the moment, the studies are being reviewed by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (or NSABB). The whole issue has led to some agreement that there needs to be a way to deal with issues such as these more appropriately. …

Could Saskatchewan farms be under attack?

(CTV Regina) Johnson told the Annual Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan Conference that agro-terrorism causes millions of dollars in property damage each year. In many cases, meat processing plants or animal research facilities are targeted. …

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