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Qaeda WMD Threat Remains After Bin Laden’s Death, Ex-Official Says

The most likely … are simple forms of chemical or biological weapons" instead of a nuclear strike, Leiter said. He cited the lethal toxin ricin, which is fairly easy to produce, as one bioweapon that might be used. Ricin is derived from commercially …

Portable device detects anthrax in under an hour

R & D Magazine – Cornell University – A portable device can detect the presence of the anthrax bacterium in about one hour from a sample containing as few as 40 microscopic spores, report Cornell and University of Albany researchers who invented it.

Biodefense Bill Progresses to House Vote

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday gave voice-vote approval to legislation intended to reauthorize leading U.S. biological defense programs (see GSN, July 27). H.R. 2405 is intended to renew the 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, notably the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and Project Bioshield, according to Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).  Read More »

Polio Can Be Beaten If U.S. Protects Worldwide Vaccination Efforts

Smallpox, which claimed 2 million lives in 1967, was stamped out by 1980 through an enormous vaccine campaign. Today the world has a shot at a second such triumph, this time over polio. It will take more than good medicine to succeed. …

Renewal of 2006 preparedness law advances in US House

CIDRAP – The report for calendar year 2010, released this week, lists the amounts of countermeasures that have been acquired for anthrax, botulinum toxin, smallpox, and radiation exposures. The products are stored in the Strategic National Stockpile.

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