Pakistan delays approving bioweapons bill

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 Jenkins asks Obama for lab support

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

English hospital put on full alert during anthrax panic

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

Students receives anthrax scare from textbook

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

Inquiry into Basson set to resume this week

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

Deseret Chemical Depot eliminates last of its weapons stockpile

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

Lab-engineered H5N1 not fatal, lead scientist says

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. delivers biothreat detection kits to U.S. military

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

U.S. health and law expert supports weaponized H5N1 moratorium

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

U.S. assumes leadership of G8′s non-proliferation bodies

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

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