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Locate, Lockdown, and Eliminate by Col. Randall Larsen

“Locate, lockdown, and eliminate loose nuclear material.” That is the correct strategy for preventing nuclear terrorism. Non-state actors are not capable of enriching uranium or producing plutonium. They can only buy it or steal it. Preventing the theft or sale of this material will prevent a mushroom cloud over an American city. Preventing nuclear terrorism Read More »

March 4, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Bioterrorism
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U.S. scrambling to contain potential measles outbreak

Public health officials in the United States are scrambling to prevent a massive measles outbreak after an infected woman came into contact with thousands of people as she travelled through three U.S. airports; measles is a highly contagious respiratory virus that can be transmitted through coughing or sneezing; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Read More »

March 4, 2011
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Artificial honey pots lure deadly viruses, then kill them

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Weill Cornell Medical College have found a new means to hunt viruses the old fashioned way: by luring them in for the kill. Using artificial, protocellular “honey pots,” the researchers have devised a way to trap deadly human viruses and terminate them with extreme Read More »

March 3, 2011
| Filed under North America and Research
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Better health comes in shipping containers

All Headline NewsLabs are internationally graded according to their biosafety level, or the level of precautions taken to isolate dangerous diseases like TB. Zambia's first container lab ranks at 3 on…

March 3, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biosafety
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Kansas House, Senate leaders urge Congress to fund National Bio- and Agro- Defense Facility

Kansas House, Senate leaders urge Congress to fund National Bio- and Agro Defense Facility. Kansas legislative leaders spent time this week knocking on doors in Washington to urge Congress to fund construction of new biosecurity facility in the state. Rep…