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FBI Asks Panel to Delay Report on Anthrax Inquiry

The FBI is seeking to push back the scheduled publication of a scientific report on the bureau’s probe of the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 17). (Dec. 10) – A cleanup worker in October 2001 prepares to enter a Florida office building that was  Read More »

WikiLeaks Spotlights Secret Catalog Of Vulnerable Vaccine Facilities

U.S. officials on Monday denounced a WikiLeaks posting that catalogs hundreds of crucial overseas facilities that, if attacked by terrorists, could harm American interests — including vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals.

Biosafety Lab Remains Closed Amid Controversy

Biosafety Lab Remains Closed Amid ControversyThe Epoch TimesIn fact there have only been five anthrax cases in the United States and they have come from one of the bio defense research laboratories. …

BWC Nations Should Weigh Impact of New Research, U.N. Chief Says

States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention should establish a system for assessing how scientific and technological advances could affect efforts to rid the world of biological weapons, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement to a meeting of the countries that started yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 3).

DoD Signs Contract To Develop Biological Pathogen Antidotes

The Department of Defense has signed a three year, $8.2 million contract with South Brunswick, New Jersey’s Snowdon, Inc., to develop drug molecules like antidotes and vaccines to protect against eight biological pathogens.

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