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Feds to reveal more details in plot by 4 Ga. militia suspects

(Washington Post) Authorities also charged 55-year-old Ray Adams and 68-year-old Samuel Crump with conspiring and attempting to make ricin, a biological toxin. The four men have pleaded not guilty and their relatives say the charges are baseless. …

Smallpox vaccine doubles liver cancer survival time

(New Scientist) Smallpox vaccine has doubled the survival time of people with advanced liver cancer. The vaccine that eradicated smallpox consists of a live virus, Vaccinia, with a surprising taste for tumours. It prefers to infect cancer cells because they turn off …

Senators Introduce Bill to Prepare Nation for the Threat of Pandemics

(PoliticalNews.me) … “This reauthorization builds on a record of bipartisan cooperation that has strengthened our ability to respond to medical and public health emergencies over the past decade,” said Harkin, who is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “Applying lessons we’ve learned during the past few years, this bill enhances existing  Read More »

Obama Rationale for Smallpox Drug Contract Called Into Question

(GSN Daily News) The Obama administration’s decision to award a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to manufacture a smallpox antiviral of questionable efficacy has been called into question, particularly because a principal shareholder in the contracting firm is a longtime campaign donor, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday (see GSN, June 28).  Read More »

We Are Still Not Ready

(New York Times) Wil Hylton’s article “How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?” raised important concerns about how hard it is to protect the country from naturally occurring and man-made biological threats. He outlined how the lack of profitability and the bureaucratic …

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