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Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal

(Los Angeles Times) Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is  Read More »

Livestock treatment debated at Supreme Court

(CNN) The meat industry says being forced to immediately euthanize all nonambulatory animals would hurt its ability to detect and fight one particularly virulent disease: foot-and-mouth, which is highly contagious. The industry says federal inspection is …

Bioterrorism threat seen in alien or invasive species

(UPI) It’s been the stuff of movies, science fiction and alarmist political rhetoric, but new scientific research shows an invasive species incompatible with a specific ecosystem could be deployed as unique biological weapons by …

Exercise focuses on potential N. Korea biological, chemical attack

(Stars and Stripes) CAMP CASEY, South Korea – U.S. and South Korean military officials huddled in operations centers over the past two weeks going over, in great detail, how they would respond to a chemical or biological attack from North Korea. While many details of the exercise are classified, 2nd Infantry Division officials said the  Read More »

SLU terror-readiness program is world-renown

(KSDK) In fact, the head of Saint Louis University’s Institute for Biosecurity has serious doubts about the government’s official explanation in that famous case. The FBI closed the investigation into the anthrax letter attacks in the fall of 2001 that killed …

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