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ISU providing swine FMD guide

(American Veterinary Medical Association) Iowa State University is providing a guide on identifying the lesions caused by foot-and-mouth disease virus in domestic and feral swine. Electronic copies of the guide are available free from the university's Center for Food Security and Public Health …

Pentagon Awards $3.1M For Tularemia Study

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded $3.1 million to an Albany Medical College researcher conducting a study on tularemia, the New York Business Review reported on Tuesday (see GSN, April 13). The bacterial disease is considered potential candidate for terrorists to use in a biological weapons attack. Albany Medical College Center for Immunology and Microbial  Read More »

Hawaii gets $5.3M for emergency preparedness

(Bizjournals.com) Among the measures covered by the state's public health emergency preparedness planning and training are food safety defense, rapid detection, identification and response to toxins, bioterrorism preparedness and effective public notification and …

Albany Med professor awarded $3.1M for bioterrorism research

(Bizjournals.com) Over the next five and a half years, Dr. Karsten Hazlett, assistant professor in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Med, will study the biological differences between naturally occurring and lab-grown Francisella tularensis, …

New Report Reviews Risk Assessment Plans for Proposed Fort Detrick Facility

(National Academies) A new report from the National Research Council says that an Army contractor’s strategy for conducting a site-specific risk assessment (SSRA) for the proposed Medical Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Facility at Fort Detrick, Md., is not sufficiently robust to help the Army design a facility that will reduce potential hazards. The separation of  Read More »

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