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Anthrax Mailings Recovery Required $320M, Analysis Finds

(Global Security Newswire) The 2001 anthrax mailings resulted in $320 million in expenditures aimed at ensuring government and private facilities were free of the deadly bacteria, according to an analysis published on Tuesday. The anthrax-tainted letters addressed to congressional offices and media organizations killed five people and sickened 17, according to  Read More »

South Korea to Overhaul Anti-WMD Defense Efforts

(Global Security Newswire) The South Korean Defense Ministry intends to overhaul its operations for dealing with the threats posed by unconventional weapons and digital attacks, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday. As part of the restructuring, the ministry’s nonproliferation branch is to be given a new title — the WMD  Read More »

Researchers weigh in on ethics of H5N1 research

(Medical Xpress) In a commentary on the biosecurity controversy surrounding publication of bird flu research details, a bioethicist and a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins reaffirm that “all scientists have an affirmative ethical obligation to avoid contributing to the advancement of biowarfare and bioterrorism,” but that there are not sufficient structures  Read More »

Experts: Dual-use H5N1 studies may not hasten pandemic response

(CIDRAP News) International experts say that, while experiments on H5N1 avian flu transmission in mammals are important, publishing full details of such “dual-use” studies likely will not speed up the vaccine response in a pandemic, according to a news report and editorial in Nature today. “I think the research is important,  Read More »

Lab is one of few that studies deadly agents

(San Antonio Express) Two airlocked steel doors away from Texas Biomedical Research Institute’s biosafety level-4 lab, where only deadly infectious diseases with no treatments or vaccines available are studied, two technicians wiggle into pressurized suits …