Pakistan recently delayed the approval of a bill designed to implement the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention after lawmakers questioned several of its clauses. The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has deferred the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention … Read More
Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-Kansas) recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking for his continued support of plans to build a major biosafety level-4 animal disease research facility near Manhattan, Kansas. Current plans call for the National Bio and … Read More
The medical staff at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in South Yorkshire, England, were put on full alert after an anthrax panic on Sunday. The incident occurred when a woman turned up at the hospital after potentially taking a suspected heroin overdose. … Read More
A student at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, ordered a textbook for a class on terrorism from Amazon.com and received a scare when a bag containing a white substance fell out. Sophia Stockton had ordered the book, “Understanding Terrorism: … Read More
An inquiry into to the conduct of Dr. Wouter Basson, the head of South Africa’s apartheid-era biological weapons program, is set to resume this week in Pretoria, South Africa. Basson, a cardiologist by training, is seeking to be discharged of … Read More
The U.S. Army’s Deseret Chemical depot recently eliminated the last of its stockpile of mustard agent-filled projectiles. The depot was once home to the Army’s largest collection of chemical weapons – approximately 13,600 tons. It expects to have destroyed all … Read More
According to the lead scientist of the lab-engineered airborne strain of avian flu in Wisconsin, the strain is not lethal and can be defeated with existing medicines. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin, said that … Read More
Idaho Technology, Inc., a privately held Salt Lake City-based biotechnology company, announced on Wednesday that it has delivered the first shipment of a biothreat detection kit to the Critical Reagents Program. The RAZOR CRP BioThreat-X Kits will be supplied to … Read More
A U.S. public health and law expert recently explained his support for the voluntary moratorium on research into a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza. The two month halt in research is being observed by nearly 40 high-level influenza scientists, … Read More
As the head of the G8 in 2012, the United States has assumed leadership of the organization’s three non-proliferation bodies. The United States now chairs the Non-proliferation Directors Group, the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of … Read More
