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Universal Detection Technology Wins Tender for Biological Weapon Detection Equipment From the Singapore Civil Defense Force

(Press Release) LOS ANGELES, CA-Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, announced today that is has won a tender for Biological Weapon Detection Equipment from the Singapore Civil Defense Force. The tender included equipment for the detection of Anthrax, Ricin, Botulinum, Y. Pestis (Plague) and Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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HHS Curbs Smallpox Antiviral Purchase

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has dropped an option in a $433 million smallpox antiviral drug contract to purchase 12 million additional courses of the treatment, the Corvallis, Ore., Gazette Times reported (see GSN, May 17, 2011). The department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Developmental Authority included the option in the Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Battle against plague and bacterial pneumonias: Researchers identify new component that can be used as a vaccine

(ScienceDaily) Researchers from the Smiley lab at the Trudeau Institute have now identified a single component of the plague causing bacterium that can be used as a vaccine. This single “subunit” could potentially be used to create a safer form of a T cell-stimulating plague vaccine.

June 28, 2011
| Filed under North America and Research
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UN lauds international cooperation in eradicating deadly cattle plague

(UN News Centre) The lessons learned from the elimination of rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague that has threatened the livelihoods of herders and rural families for millennia, can be applied to tackling other major challenges, such as hunger and extreme poverty, a senior United Nations official said today. Jacques Diouf, the Director-General of the Food Read More »

June 27, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agriculture, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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House Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill Aimed at Preventing WMD Attack

(HS Today) House lawmakers renewed their effort Friday to pass a bill to implement the recommendations of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission, which warned that a WMD attack, most likely using biological agents, would likely occur somewhere in the world by 2013 without significant action to prevent it.