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Response drills for foot and mouth disease begin [this] week

DAIRY HERD NETWORK — The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has prompted heightened awareness of a possible retaliatory terrorist attack. And, the livestock community is not immune to the threat. At last week’s International Symposium on Agroterrorism, hosted by the FBI, some of the speakers mentioned that the U.S. food and agricultural system  Read More »

Foot-and-mouth disease study could save millions of animals

USA TODAY — A paper out today in the journal Science could save the lives of millions of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. Researchers in the United Kingdom have proven that the infectious period for foot-and-mouth disease is only 1.7 days on average, rather than the four to eight days previously believed. That number means  Read More »

FBI: Suspicious letters mailed to DC schools

ASSOCIATED PRESS — More than 20 letters that contained a white, powdery substance delivered to District of Columbia schools on Thursday are similar to those mailed to schools elsewhere in the U.S. over the last several weeks, the FBI said. Preliminary testing by hazardous materials crews found the powder in the letters received in the  Read More »

DHS Says No to Upping Threat Level Based on Data From Bin Laden Compound

GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWSIRE — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators on Wednesday that information collected at the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was found and killed is already being shared with her department (see GSN, May 4). But she said there is no credible or specific information that would warrant raising the  Read More »

A small pox, a big debate

ABC ONLINE — In a few weeks time the WHO will meet to consider whether or not to formally recommend that the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus be permanently destroyed. At least two laboratories in the USA and Russia are said to maintain stocks of the virus frozen in liquid nitrogen, presumably as a  Read More »

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