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Two more anthrax cases in Scotland
by Rita Uplend on March 11, 2010

Annthrax

Two more heroin addicts in Scotland are being treated for anthrax infections as part of an outbreak that has killed 10 drug users nationwide.

Cell-All

The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has begun a program to equip cell phones with a chemical sensor that will be cost effective and not impact a phone's battery life.

Fort Detrick

The National Research Council has released a report at Congress' behest that finds several problems in the U.S. Army's environmental impact statement for its expansion of Fort Detrick's bicontainment laboratories.

A $12 million grant was recently awarded to Kansas State University to partner with the Department of Homeland Security in creating a Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases.

ANthrax

An attorney for the alleged anthrax killer Bruce Ivins has said that he does not believe that the case against Ivins should not be closed.

Despite a surge in funds available for bioterrorism preparedness over the last decade, a Purdue University study says that local public health resources have not been improved.

Congress has been advised by the American Water Works Association that any new chemical security legislation needs to reflect local water experts' needs to make key treatment decisions.

Idaho State University's "Play2Train" Second Life application has been named by the U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center as a finalist in its inaugural Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge.

Anthrax

Part of Montana's capitol city of Helena was shut down this week following an anthrax scare at the Department of Labor and Industry.

David P. Southwell has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

India's navy has begun the creation of a nuclear, biological and chemical defense training facility.

According to a report in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, Iran's Islami Revolutionary Guard Corps has equipped missiles with chemical warheads.

Ricin

A white supremacist in England has pleaded guilty to the production of the deadly poison ricin for use in acts of terrorism.

The city of Burbank, California, has made a purchase order with Universal Detection Technology for bioterrorism detection equipment, including the company's 5-agent detection kit.

Molecular Diagnostics

Dr. Braun joins TrovaGene, Inc., as its vice president and chief medical officer. Dr. Braun has more than 25 years of direct industry experience in the development of molecular diagnostic assays for the clinical reference laboratory.

Dr. Thomas Waytes

Emergency responders arrived at Sen. Tom Daschle’s Capitol Hill office on Oct. 15, 2001 suited in personal protective equipment (PPE).

The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC has released a comprehensive assessment of the Health and Human Services Hospital Preparedness program to aid in developing recommendations for improving and evaluating future hospital preparedness efforts.

Missouri National Guard members at Fort Leonard Wood were trained this weekend on biological, chemical and nuclear detection equipment.

The program for the Knowledge Foundation's 16th Biodetection Technologies conference has officially been revealed.

Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to aid the nation's front line performers in defense against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive weapons of mass destruction.

Director of the Center for Disease Control and Environmental Health for the City of Milwaukee Health Department, discussed bioterrorism issues and current methods of disease pandemic control at a recent lecture at the Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Anthrax

The FBI has made public thousands of pages of police reports, emails and other files about Bruce Ivins, the alleged culprit of the 2001 anthrax mailings.

The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command has awarded Science Applications International Corporation with a contract to support the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and other customers with CBRNE support services.

Anthrax

The secretary of a Brooklyn judge opened an envelope on Thursday containing a suspicious white powder, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration has announced.

Fort Detrick

A National Academy of Sciences panel has revealed that the U.S. Army failed to analyze fully the public exposure risks of deadly pathogens from a Fort Detrick biodefense laboratory.

Botulinum Toxin

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University's Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery have been selected to receive research funds to develop anti-botulism drugs.

Human Genome Sciences Inc., which is developing an inhalational anthrax treatment, has announced this week that Chief Financial Officer Timothy Barabe is resigning.

Federal charges are now pending against a Utah prison inmate who is alleged to have sent at least one Salt Lake City government office an anthrax threat in December.

Anthrax

Georgia's Gilmer County faced an anthrax scare for the second straight day on Wednesday, when an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was found at Gilmer County High School in Ellijay, Georgia.

Anthrax

Decontamination of the Strafford County, New Hampshire building where a woman was exposed to anthrax spores will cost $70,000, experts have said.

The U.S. Army has placed a purchase order with Universal Detection Technology for its 5-agent detection kits as well as for equipment for the detection of ricin and staphylococcal enterotoxin B.

Anthrax

Work ground to a halt at the offices of the American Psychological Association on Tuesday following the discovery of a letter filled with a white, powdery substance.

India has deployed approximately 100 personnel from its National Disaster Response Force to guard the National Stadium against probable biological, chemical or nuclear disasters as it hots the hockey World Cup.

The independent defense industries Visiongain thinktank has announced that the global chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense market in 2009 was worth $7.9 billion.

South Carolina's Horry County has announced a four day public safety exercise that will focus on handling large-scale biological and chemical weapons attacks.

Lawmakers were briefed last week by a government biosecurity expert on the next generation "lab-in-a-box," which would be used by the Department of Homeland Security to detect, identify and aid in response to bioterrorism attacks.

A Denver man suspected of mailing white powder to Colorado and Alabama senators and representatives has been arrested by the FBI.

A hazmat crew was dispatched to a Farr West, Utah Internal Revenue Service building this morning following the detection of an unknown substance.

Universal Detection Technology has responded to a recent Harvard School of Public Health poll that found 39 percent of Americans facing a significant anthrax threat would delay taking prophylactic antibiotics.

BIO-ACT, a complete emergency response assessment solution to rapidly identify biological warfare acts in the field, has been launched by Smiths Detection.

Anthrax

A new case of anthrax infection has been reported in an injecting heroin user in London, the Health Protection Agency has announced.

U.S. Rep. John Linder

U.S. Rep. John Linder, the chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack, has announced that he will not seek re-election.

A report released by the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Investigative Reporting, based in Berkeley, California, includes an interactive map to detail the use of homeland security readiness in all 50 states.

Israel began its distribution of new gas masks to civilians on Sunday, which are meant to protect the nation in the event of a biological or chemical attack

The International Agri-Center in Tulare, California was recently visited by government officials in an attempt to raise awareness of the threat, impact and response needs in the face of potential terrorist attacks on the agricultural sector.

Anthrax

Two villagers in a remote Philippine village have died from suspected anthrax infections and approximately 150 more have been hospitalized.

Fox News has reported on the Obama administration's steering of as much as $150 million in federal funding for an anthrax vaccine to a biodefense firm that holds strong Democratic Party ties.

Anthrax

Further review is being sought by the United States House of Representatives over the 2001 anthrax mailings that resulted in five deaths that was recently closed by the FBI.

At this week's Homeland Security budget hearing, Congressman David Price noted his concern about two programs meant to track and alter biothreats.

SIGA Technologies has been awarded a $2.8 million contract from the Department of Defense's Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative to develop a broad spectrum antiviral that could aid U.S. citizens in the event of a bioattack.

Anthrax

An anthrax scare at a Kearny Mesa, California business is under investigation by the FBI.

A former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has recently written that facing the problem of bioterrorism will require creative thinking and the ingenuity of the American people.

Botulinum Toxin

A new strategy for clearing Botulinum toxin molecules - one of the world's deadliest substances - has been developed by a team from Tufts University.

Ricin

Researchers at the Jordan Valley Innovation Center in Springfield, Missouri have announced advances in their project to create sensors that can detect anthrax, ricin and E. coli.

Eighteen members of the Army National Guard and four members of the Air Force National Guard used Shelbyville, Tenn.'s Calsonic Arena this week to stage a training exercise simulating a biological or chemical attack.

World Health Organization

A recent "Train-the-Trainer" session for the prevention of bioterrorism presented by INTERPOL was attended by law enforcement, customs and public health officials from Asia and the South Pacific.

David P. Wright

In a move touted as by many experts as questionable at best, PharmAthene has seen millions of dollars added to a 2003 contract without competing for it.

Lansing, Michigan police chief Mark Alley has announced that he will retire within the month to take a new position at Emergent BioSolutions Inc. as the company's senior director of risk management.

Anthrax

Aradigm Corporation has announced that is has dosed its first U.S. patient as part of its Once-daily Respiratory Bronchiectasis Inhalation Treatment trial.

Smallpox

Chimerix, Inc.'s founder and CEO George Painter, Ph.D., will join with representatives from government, industry and academia in an Institute of Medicine Workshop.

Universal Detection Technology has begun promoting its handheld assays, which are able to detect up to five bioterrorism agents, in Australia.

Anthrax

The death toll in Scotland for drug users infected by anthrax through intravenous injections has risen to 10, health officials have said.

Tunisian officers recently traveled to Ramstein, Germany to work with the United States' 17th Air Force to begin preparing for a medical exercise focusing on potential responses to biological, chemical, nuclear and explosive threats.

A former Japanese National Police Agency chief has revealed in an interview that a tip was received prior to the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack that killed 12 people.

A new three-floor underground car park to be built at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel will double as an emergency hospital in the event of a biological, chemical or nuclear attack.

A hazmat crew was called to a Trenton police building recently following the discovery of an envelope filled with an unknown white powder.

India's Defense Research and Development Organization has announced that it will place a high priority on the development of systems, including better biological and chemical defense systems, to combat the challenges of terrorism.

Disease specific plans utilized by most European countries could cost precious time and resources, a study about gaps in pandemic preparedness has revealed.

National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Nanomaterials developed at Montana State University could be used in the future to fight respiratory infections created by bioattacks, scientists have said.

The investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, the FBI and several other government agencies into the 2001 anthrax attacks in America has officially been closed.

Anthrax

A recent study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that 89 percent of Americans, in the event of a significant anthrax bioattack, would follow public health recommendations in obtaining antibiotics.

Police were called to the Boston office of U.S. Sen. John Kerry after it received a suspicious package thought to hold either a biological or chemical threat.

Kathleen Sebelius

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke about efforts to strengthen health preparedness at this week's 2010 Public Health preparedness Summit.

Anthrax

The main dining room and staff cafeteria at the United Nations in New York was closed on Thursday following the discovery of "a suspicious envelope," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

A death sentence has been finalized by a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member who aided the group in two deadly sarin nerve gas attacks in 1994 and 1995.

Scientific experts in India have asked industries to better safeguard hazardous chemicals and materials to keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

BioCheck Powder Screening Test Kit

A worldwide distribution agreement has been announced by Smiths Detection with 20/20 BioResponse for its patented BioCheck powder screening test kits

A Cedar Grove, New Jersey bank was the recipient of an envelope containing a suspicious powder this week.

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

The U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center has selected Camber Corp. to provide it with engineering, research and technology support services.

The welcome mat has been rolled out for AirBoss Defense by Vermont Governor Jim Douglas at the company's new Milton, Vermont plant.

An envelope containing a suspicious white powder was opened today at the Ionia, Mich., County Courthose, prompting the Ionia Public Safety Hazmat team to be called in.

Tata-Bruker, a U.K.-based chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection solution manufacture, has offered New Delhi, India a reconnaissance vehicle to use to combat terrorist threats during the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Dengue Virus

A research and development agreement has been signed between NanoViricides, Inc., and the laboratory of Dr. Eva Harris at the University of California - Berkeley to evaluate the effectiveness of Nanoviricides drug candidates against dengue viruses.

Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems

A new type of diamond-based nanowire devices developed by researchers at Harvard University could potentially be used in new generations of biological and chemical sensors.

Experts have said that a biological or nuclear attack on the United States by terrorist remains the nation's greatest threat but is unlikely to occur.

A Queen's University study has revealed that one quarter of Ontario, Canada hospitals do not currently have pandemic plans in place and few have tested existing plans.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have gained added protection from chemical and biological weapons following the launching of a new ship that can detect those potential terror threats.

India's Defense Minister and President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Shri AK Antony, called for an end of war to settle disputes, the destruction of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and a call to fight terrorism.

The Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment and Cooperative Extension Service and the Extension Disaster Education network has organized a workshop in Liberal, Kansas, to prepare for potential bioterrorist threats and other disasters.

Universal Detection Technology will allow WellCrown to act as UDT's sole agent and distributor in Malaysia for its early-warning monitoring technologies that protects against bioterrorism.

A proposed U.S. Coast Guard budget cut could take Camden County, Georgia's maritime Homeland Security team away from Kings Bay, leaving the area unprotected during threats of biological, chemical or radiological attacks.

The recent anti-vaccine movement, meant to combat the theory that childhood immunizations could be linked to autism, could seriously raise the dangers of the United States' response to potential acts of bioterror, an expert has recently announced.

A subcommittee of the National Biodefense Science Board, has released a report calling for closer collaboration with private industry to improve the nation's medical defenses against biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear threats.

Anthrax

The New Hampshire woman who contracted a rare form of anthrax two months ago is now able to get up and walk around, health officials have announced, but will remain hospitalized for some time

Boeing Co 74 Jumbo Jet

A modified Boeing Co 74 jumbo jet using a high-powered laser has successfully shot down a ballistic missile in-flight for the first time, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has said in a statement.

U.S. Army officials have announced that more than 70 percent of the Army's chemical weapons stockpiles have been destroyed with the majority expected to be destroyed by 2012.

Anthrax

The death of a heroin user in Germany from anthrax infected heroin has been positively linked to the Scottish anthrax outbreak that has killed nine heroin users in that country.

John Murtha

BigGovernment.com and other news outlets are reporting that PharmAthene, closely tied to late Congressman John Murtha and DHS Under Secretary Tara O'Toole, has seen millions of dollars added to a 2003 contract without competing for it.

Tara O'Toole

BigGovernment.com reports that PharmAthene is enjoying preferential treatment from the federal government, thanks to its close connections to recently deceased Congressman John Murtha and DHS Under Secretary Tara O’Toole.

Yuma, Arizona

Air station personnel at a Yuma air station have finished a joint training exercise with local emergency response services to assess their ability to respond to biological, chemical and nuclear attacks while coordinating their responsibilities.

Minot Air Force Base

Minot Air Force Base has completed a 48 hour training exercise, dubbed Prairie Night 10-1, to ensure that members of its 5th Bomb Wing are prepared in the event of a biological or chemical attack if deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Under the White House's proposed fiscal 2011 budget proposal, current chemical facility anti-terrorism standards will be extended one year while a bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation to reauthorize CFATS for five years.

A spokesman for Ireland's Labour Party has called for new legislation banning biological weapons to also include the prohibition of transmission of bioweapons through Irish airspace.

In a plan to protect the L.A.-Long Beach port complex from biological, chemical, radiologic and nuclear attacks, the city has announced a cutting-edge ship, radiation-detecting helicopter and biological and chemical sniffing dog.

ALCO Water Service

The investor-owned Alco Water Service has begun using an RFID-based system for security at its unmanned pump stations throughout Salinas, Calif., bringing them into compliance with the Bioterrorism Act of 2002.

Anthrax

England has seen its first death from anthrax infected heroin and second reported infection, bringing the total deaths from the current outbreak to 11 in the United Kingdom and Germany.

A letter sent to a Salem, Mass. hospital this week contained a small white powder, setting off fears of an anthrax attack within the building.

A strange new natural contender in aiding in the fight against biological weapons has stepped forward, with researchers learning that the fruit of mushrooms can be used in cleaning up following a biological attack.

A pair of conferences over the next few weeks will enact a comprehensive review of the United States' ability to reduce the impact of a biological weapons attack.

Immunovaccine Inc. will present positive new research, done in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Canada, that confirms that the number of required doses for an anthrax vaccine candidate can be reduced when formulated in DepoVax.

Anthrax

Australian health officials have put the nation's drug users on alert about potential deadly batches of anthrax infected heroin, which have already accounted for at least ten deaths and more than 20 infections in Europe.

DeconGel

The Environmental, Security, Safety and Health Achievement Award has been presented to the National Energy Technology Laboratory and Safety and Ecology Corporation for their use of DeconGel to mitigate and abate hazardous matter.

A U.S. patent has been granted to Borealis Exploration Limited for its Avto Metals Technology.

Qinetiq North America is working in conjunction with Brewer Science and Applied Systems Intelligence on a program to develop an autonomous, self-deploying sensor to serve as a roving, early-warning detector of biological warfare activity.

Darpa, in a move that means to use bioweapons for good, has announced the investment of $6 million into a project that will create "synthetic organisms" that never die but can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

A major extension in the collaborative effort between Corgenix Medical Corporation and Tulane University has been announced to combat viral hemorrhagic fever.

An agreement between Universal Detection Technology and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service will allow UDT to promote its handheld bioterrorism detecting assays in Canada.

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has announced a new workshop that will examine federal policies and activities in relation to discovery through approval of medical countermeasures for biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear thre

Cell phones could soon be used as nodes as part of a wide reaching chemical weapon sensor network.

Anthrax

An alert has been issued by British health officials following a positive test for an anthrax infection by a heroin user.

A prototype vest design by Industrial design students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design contains sensors that display information about potential biothreats in the air and provides a built in face mask.

Ebola

Construction on GenPhar's new 50,000-square-foot, $33 million Mount Pleasant, South Carolina headquarters has been put on hold after the town ordered work to halt.

A landmine that exploded at the boundary of Libug and Cabcaban villages in Sumisip town, the Philippines, reportedly contained biological weapons, authorities have said.

Beginning May 1, hospitals, researchers and companies in Denmark will be required to apply for a license to use certain substances that could be used to make biological weapons.

Anthrax

Medizone International, Inc., has reported that in full scale test runs of a hospital room mock up facility, its AsepcticSure system has resulted in the total elimination of all bacteria present.

Under President Barack Obama's recently announced proposed 2011 budget, two army sites would receive $511 million for the disposal of biological and chemical weapons.

Smallpox

As part of its recently announced project to create a smallpox vaccine to fight bioterrorism, Saint Louis University has begun seeking 250 volunteers to inject with smallpox.

Kavoshgar 3 Rocket

Iran has announced the successful test firing of a new satellite-carrying rocket containing an "experimental capsule" with live species inside that has raised the spectre of potential biological or chemical attacks.

Senior U.S. officials, noting N. Korea's biological and chemical weapons as well as nuclear warheads and long range missiles, announced that U.S. ground forces may not, in the case of an emergency situation, be able to arrive in S. Korea in time.

New York City

Authorities have said that seven people in a U.S. federal building in downtown Manhattan were exposed to a suspicious white powde

Alfred P. Murrah Building, Oklahoma City

H.R. 4580, the Metropolitan Medical Response System Act, would ensure the proper integration and coordination of local emergency management plans int he event of a biological attack, nuclear bomb or natural disaster.

The state of Michigan, facing the loss of manufacturing jobs, has turned its eye toward the future and begun exploring innovative methods of restoring prosperity to the region.

Soligenix, Inc., has announced the publication of an article describing preclinical formulations of RiVax, a ricin toxin vaccine, with heightened stability.

A new study has highlighted how people behave during pandemics and potentially paved the way to predict protective behaviors by identifying key demographic and psychological factors, giving light on how populations might react to a bioterror event.

New deep-UV sources can aid in the protection of human health, human life and food supplies by detecting and classifying single bacterial spores, cells and trace levels of cellular debris and dissolved chemicals.

Gov. Mark Parkinson

Kansas officials have expressed their gratitude following the announcement of $40 million in President Barack Obama's proposed 2011 budget for the construction of a biodefense laboratory in northeast Kansas.

Another attack on the U.S. by Al Qaeda within the next three to six months is expected, top U.S. intelligence officials have said, noting that the terror organization has been pursuing chemical and biological options.

National Institute of Health

A more effective manner of administering an investigational vaccine for smallpox will be studied by scientists at Saint Louis University's Center for Vaccine Development in a study funded by the National Institute of Health.

Scott Habig has joined Human Genome Sciences, Inc., as vice president of sales.

Kathleen Sebelius

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services statement highlights critical components of President Obama's 2011 HHS budget that will protect citizens from bioterrorism and also protect the health and safety of American citizens.

A malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co., caused a U.S. attempt to shoot down a missile mimicking an Iranian attack to fail, the Defense Department has announced.

Las Vegas' County Commission is expected to beef up its security against potential biothreats, approving several agenda items that will allow it to better combat biothreats.

Security measures at this year's Super Bowl have been stepped up following the recent attempted Christmas airline terror attack.

A draft of the Pentagon's new strategic outlook calls for the preparation for numerous conflicts in many styles, a radical departure from the normal shaping of the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars simultaneously.

Anthrax

The hunt for the source of heroin tainted with anthrax has been widened following the tenth reported death from the infection in Scotland.

The Delaney Center at Mount St. Mary's University has launched a new virtual community that allows intelligence officers, students and even Capitol Hill executives to network with bioterrorism experts, bodyguards and academics

Ebola

The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research has begun tests on an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses.

Ali Hassan al-Majid

The Iraqi capital was rocked by bombs following the hanging death of Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, for crimes against humanity.

The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has weighed in on President Barack Obama's announcement during his State of the Union Address of a new initiative to fight bioterrorism.

Sen. Dick Lugar

A summary of the progress of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programs for 2009 has been released by U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar.

Counter terror experts have announced that Al Qaida has set its sights onto using biological and chemical attacks on shopping malls and other soft targets.

A new report raises questions as to the ethics of medicalized weapons, biological weapons meant to incapacitate rather than kill, and the implications of medical personnel designing, manufacturing and testing such weapons.

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promised to take steps to ensure that a faster threat is ensured against the threat of bio-terrorism.

Bob Graham and Jim Talent

Universal Detection Technology has responded to the recent scathing WMD commission report that gave the government an "F" for its preparedness for biological attacks.

Anthrax

New Hampshire's deputy state epidemiologist has announced that, as of Wednesday, the woman who contracted a rare form of anthrax almost two months ago, despite remaining hospitalized, is now able to answer state health officials' questions.

Bruce Drinkwater

Sonotweezers may soon allow first responders to detect bioterror agents with a tweezer-like device that utilizes ultrasonics.

Anthrax

In an article written by Edward Epstein in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion section, Epstein has claimed that Bruce Ivins, long thought to be the source of the 2001 American anthrax attacks, was not guilty.

Barry Kellman

"The notion that we can insulate ourselves in any meaningful sense from a pandemic disease is naive," says Barry Kellman, president of the International Security & Biopolicy Institute.

Bob Graham and Jim Talent

A report card released today by the bipartisan Commisson on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism has turned a critical eye to the preparedness by the United States for a bioattack.

A new plan will be unveiled by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union Address to allow for a quicker and better response to bioterror threats and attacks, the White House has announced.

The University of Florida has held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new, 80,000-square-foot Emerging Pathogens Institute.

Bay Area Rapid Transit

The Alameda County Public Health Department and Bay Area Rapid Transit will conduct a real-time, mass vaccination on BART's regional transit system in oakland to test for emergency readiness in the event of a bioattack or pandemic.

The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States.

A first-of-its-kind chamber has been developed by Applied Physics Laboratory engineers to test, under realistic battlefield conditions, the viability of sensors designed to detect chemical warfare agents.

A new water filter that utilizes reverse osmosis to create potable water int he event of a biological, chemical or nuclear attack will soon be available in India.

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Years of work by Al Qaeda terrorists to acquire weapons of mass destruction and concoct methods of using them have been assessed by a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer in a newly released research paper.

The University of Maryland's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute Technology Advancement Program incubator has been joined by Prognosys LLC, which develops rapid, multiplexed diagnostics for multiple diseases.

Anthrax

An eighth heroin user in Scotland has died after becoming infected with anthrax, health officials have confirmed, and another drug user has been confirmed to be infected with the bacteria.

Ronald F. DeMeo, president and CEO of Radiation Shield Technologies, has been announced as chairman for the 5th Annual CBRNe Conference.

Loretta Sanchez

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., has been selected as the new head of the U.S. House Armed Services terrorism, unconventional threats and capabilities subcommittee.

Botulinum Toxin

A lab that manufactures raw botulinum toxin for use in off-brand, black market Botox has investigators worried that it could turn from medical uses to a potent source for bioweapons.

INS Shivalik

India has revealed its fist indigenously built stealth class frigate, which will be inducted in April, that is equipped with state of the art defenses against biological, chemical and nuclear attacks.

Anthrax

A fifteenth heroin user has tested positive for an anthrax infection in Scotland, showing that the spread of the disease has not abated.

India's Maharashtra home minister has ordered state police to set up a specialized unit with a goal of tackling biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in the face of future terror challenges.

Bob Graham and Jim Talent

The Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism have announced that they will release a report card next week on the government's ability to protect the United States in the event of a terror attack or WMD.

Building Protection Systems, Inc., has named the Dallas-based TDIndustries as the exclusive authorized service provider and distributor for its CBRN detection system in Texas and Arizona.

Anthrax

At least eight people have died in Europe - seven in Scotland and one in Germany - since the beginning of December stemming from what is believed to be heroin tainted with anthrax.

U.S. federal, state and local authorities have finished a planning exercise to respond to a potential massive health disaster in British Columbia during the 2010 Winter Games.

The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded Solon, Ohio-based HDT Engineered Technologies with a contract for 13 Transportable Collective Protection Shelter Systems.

An Oklahoma State University faculty report has declared that university president Burns Hargis was acting within his authority when he stopped a research project on anthrax vaccines that would have euthanized baboons.

The first three day Regional Symposium on the Advocacy and Partnership on Biosafety and Biosecurity in Mindanao, Philippines, has officially begun.

A Beacon Falls, Conn.-based company has been sent a warning letter by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over it's so-called "Detox Box."

Johns Hopkins Hospital

A $6.45 million plan for design work for a planned state public health laboratory at East Baltimore Development, Inc.'s massive biotechnology research park has been approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works.

Veterans who were unwittingly subjected to toxin tests during the Cold War at the Army's Deseret Test Center say they have been denied health claims.

Smallpox

Representatives from SIGA Technologies took part in Israel's recent "Operation Orange Flame 4" biological defense drill conducted by the Defense Ministry and Health Ministry in conjunction with the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command.

Top leaders at West Coast Marine Corps installations have instituted a program to encourage all military and civilian personnel to keep a watchful eye for potential attacks - from biological to chemical to nuclear.

Drug cartels, as a result of the increase in the narcotics trade, have been increasingly able to acquire biological and chemical weapons and radioactive material for the purpose of WMD creation, the U.S. State Department has warned.

Sarin

An appeal of the death sentence for a senior member of the doomsday cult responsible for the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway has been rejected by Japan's supreme court.

Anthrax

A second round of samples taken for testing from a Durham, N.H. building were a woman contracted a rare form of anthrax have returned negative for anthrax spores, New Hampshire health officials have revealed.

Surveillance of possible terrorist attacks has been stepped up by South Africa's intelligence agencies in the run up the June's World Cup, with specific attention paid to Somalia.

Major British ports have had high-tech machines installed to detect any materials that could potentially be used to build "dirty bombs," it has been revealed.

National and regional implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) will be promoted at a regional workshop that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from February 2 to 4.

Senator Richard Lugar

An online poll has named Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) as the "2009 Arms Control Person of the Year," following his reception of the highest number of votes.

Researchers at labs working with biological agents have bristled at new proposals by Congress to secure infectious agents.

Anthrax

Following the deaths of seven heroin users and infections of 14 by anthrax in Scotland, fears have begin to rise in Germany following a fatal case of anthrax in a 24-year-old male injecting drug user.

The Bioterrorism Act of 2002 requires food facilities to register with the Food and Drug Administration yet a recent government review revealed that nearly half of food facilities have failed to give correct information.

A temporary hospital was erected on the Lexington County, South Carolina ball fields to vaccinate citizens against swine flu while simultaneously acting as a test run in preperation for a bioterror event.

A new technique for detecting the seven types of botulinum neurotoxins simultaneously could lead to increased protection of food and water supplies if such BoNTs are used for bioterrorism.

Eric A. Weiss

A study by physicians at Stanford Hospital & Clinics has concluded that, in the event of a pandemic or biological attack, patients' own cars can be effectively utilized as a drive-through emergency department.

Anthrax

Newly uncovered secret files have revealed that the culprits of a 1981 anthrax attack in Scotland were a shadowy group known as the Scottish Civilian Army.

Experts at a recent panel discussion have raised questions on the number of experts in the United States on the sciences behind the collection of data on biological weapons of mass destruction.

Two mobile laboratories - one an all-hazard triage facility and one a mobile chemical lab - have been delivered to a major Canadian military research facility dedicated to fighting chemical and biological agents.

Chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear attacks have been listed by the Homeland Security Threat Assessment as the most dangerous threats facing the United States for the years 2010 through 2014.

Steve Brozak

Biodefense industry leaders have met to discuss how to facilitate the development and approval of products in the biodefense sector following the decision to remove funds from the BioShield Special Reserve Fund.

Israel's National Emergency Authority has begun the largest-ever exercise meant to train security forces on the proper response to a citywide biological attack.

A company developing a therapeutic device meant to treat acute and chronic viral infections, biological warfare pathogens and other conditions has issued a research update.

A measure adopted by Denmark provides a state guarantee on non-life insurance against damages resulting from biological, chemical, nuclear or radioactive terrorist attacks exceeding a certain threshold.

Following two days of lectures and activities, the first part of the IPRED conference run by the IDF Home Front Command on emergency preparedness and response has ended.

Bruker Detection has advanced to the last phase of the Department of Homeland Security's Autonomous Rapid Facility Chemical Agent Monitor Research & Development Program.

The National Institutes of Health have awarded a grant to develop quick diagnostic methods for bacterial agents requiring limited resources and personnel.

Guam simulated a biological, chemical and radioactive attack this week as part of a 36 hour training exercise to test local and federal agencies' preparedness in the face of a terrorist attack.

Astro Pak

The United State's largest precision cleaning and passivation company - Astro Pak Corporation - has launched a new subsidiary to provide on-site biological decontamination services.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will increase the number of Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers to nine following the awarding of $2.7 million to create two more of the centers.

Scientists have said that the Select Agents and Toxins list, rather than strengthening security, is, in fact, undermining the nation's security.

Anthrax

In a chilling sign that Scotland's anthrax outbreak among heroin users is spreading, a seventh death - the second in Tayside - has been announced by officials.

R. Don Elsey

Emergent BioSolutions Inc.'s R. Don Elsey, chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance and administration, has joined the MdBio Foundation's board of directors.

More frequent security screening has been recommended by a federal panel for researchers who handle the world's deadliest pathogens.

Anthrax

The anthrax scare last week in Alabama, which turned out to be harmless household products, aided the state in analyzing its local, regional and state level emergency response procedures, officials have said.

In a study on potential airline bioterrorism, RGF, in association with Kansas State University, has revealed that the release of a bioagent within a plane or airport terminal easily, potentially creating a pandemic.

Security analysts have warned that World Cup fans in South Africa are facing serious terrorist threats, including biological attacks, following the lethal ambush of the Togo soccer team in Angola last week.

Prince George's Hospital

A newly announced federally funded partnership will make a Cheverly, Maryland hospital a destination in the event of a terrorist attack.

Tammy Baldwin

A federal contract worth $2.2 million has been awarded to Platypus Technologies to advance its development of a liquid crystal technology to detect molecular interactions on nanostructured surfaces.

Israel's planned simulated biological warfare attack could be the run up to a catastrophic response to Iran and Hezbollah, Elias Bejjani, a Canadian-Lebanese human rights activist has said.

Anthrax

The anthrax outbreak among intravenous drug users in Scotland has now caused six deaths and infected a total of 12 people, health officials have revealed.

A fifth envelope has been discover at University of California - Irvine containing white powder and a message with the words "black death."

Kathleen Sebelius

The National Health Security Strategy was released today by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The plan is the nation's first comprehensive strategy to focus on protecting people's health during a large-scale emergency.

Anthrax

Health officials in Scotland have revealed that they believe contaminated heroin thought to be responsible for multiple Glasgow anthrax cases may be circulating elsewhere in the nation.

Anthrax

The condition of the New Hampshire woman who contracted the extremely rare gastrointestinal form of anthrax is improving and she has been moved out of intensive care, a state health official has said.

Ebola

Dutch pharmaceutical firm Crucell has awarded a significant contract to Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research to develop a vaccine for potential bioterror weapons Ebola and Marburg.

Anthrax

A second anthrax scare at Montgomery, Alabama's municipal court building is not, the FBI has said, related to a string of similar letters sent to congressional offices around the state.

Anthrax

Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology has received a $5.3 million contract to create a vaccine to protect against both anthrax and plague.

The federal Cabinet of Pakistan has given its tentative support to a new draft bill that would ban biological weapons activities.

An investigation has been launched by authorities into a series of suspicious envelopes containing white powder sent to University of California - Irvine.

Israel

Israel will simulate the largest exercise in its history simulating a response to a biological warfare attack next week.

Bob Graham and Jim Talent

America's response to the H1N1 flu has shown that the nation is not prepared to deal with such a pandemic, experts have said.

Dr. Michael Shannon

Medizone International Inc., has announced the completion of its third round of testing and data logging for the company's enhanced AsepticSure technology.

Early warning monitoring technology developer Universal Detection Technology has issued an analysis of the recent anthrax scares in government buildings across Alabama.

Gisou van der Goot

An international research scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has, for the first time, identified the cell signaling event that sets anthrax's attack on the human body in motion.

Anthrax

Anthrax scares were set off in five Alabama cities following the delivery of envelopes containing white powder.

New grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health will aid in immunological research on several diseases, including smallpox, which could be used by bioterrorists.

Video games will be used to train workers in emergency response training in the face of a biological attack, U.S. authorities have announced.

The Secret Services has revealed that, in addition to Tareq and Michaele Salahi, a third person entered President Obama's Indian state dinner without an invitation, raising fears of how security is run for the president.

Anthrax

A strain of anthrax that infected a Strafford County, New Hampshire woman has been found to be the same as one found on two drums used in a drumming circle the woman had attended, state public health officials have announced.

President Barack Obama's December 30 executive order to prepare the nation against biological attacks - specifically anthrax attacks - calls for the development of a federal rapid response involving medical countermeasures to bioattacks

Anthrax

The number of confirmed anthrax cases in Scotland has jumped to six following another positive test of a heroin user.

Bioterrorism charges were leveled against a Michigan man who, in the course of a fight with his neighbor, bit him. The biter in the case, authorities learned, was HIV positive.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a long-range broad agency announcement seeking revolutionary technologies to improve homeland security missions and operations.

An envelope sent to Britain's Communities minister Shahid Malik was found to be filled with a white power and triggered an anthrax scare at the House of Commons.

Following an executive order released Wednesday, the U.S. Postal Service will be put in charge of delivering drugs and other medical aid to Americans in the event of a large-scale biological weapon attack.

A high intensity explosion at a chemical laboratory inside India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre resulted in the death of two junior scientists with an initial investigation focusing on biological and chemical agent experiments.

South Africa

Approximately 450,000 soccer fans are expected to stream into South Africa for the World Cup tournament, June 11 through July 11, and the nation says it is prepared for the all manner of threats, from bioattack to nuclear.

The anthrax outbreak that hit two of Zimbabwe's districts is now under control, the nation's Veterinary Services Department has announced.

Anthrax

New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services has begun offering antibiotics and the anthrax vaccine to more than 80 people after an environmental sample at a University of New Hampshire building tested positive for anthrax.

Anthrax

Doctors have confirmed that a heroin user who died last week was infected with anthrax, bringing the total deaths from infections to three.

The National Biocontainment Training Center at the University of Texas has received $5 million in federal funding support.

New rules ordered by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court will allow a county judge to cancel trials and jury duty in the wake of a catastrophe such as a bioattack.

Anthrax

Three samples tested by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human services have now been confirmed as positive for anthrax.

New York City

The NYPD will utilize biological and radiation detection devices in Times Square this year to guard against a terrorist attack on New Year's Eve.

Veterinary officials in Zimbabwe fear that the recent anthrax outbreak is spreading, announcing on Monday that they are testing another suspected case of the disease from a rural growth point approximately 31 miles east of Harare.

Prescription PDA System

A report in the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management says that utilizing a digital checklist for patients who are being administered emergency drugs during a bioterrorist attack can reduce the fatigue factor and save lives.

Ricin

Soligenix, Inc., has announced the publication of an article that details the characteristics of several immunodominant regions of ricin A chain - the antigenic component of Rivax - in the January 2010 edition of Infection and Immunity.

Anthrax

Public health investigators have confirmed that two African drums stored at the University of New Hampshire United Campus Ministry have tested positive for anthrax.

Anthrax

An anthrax outbreak in Zimbabwe has left one person and 25 cattle dead.

Guidelines to specify which patients will receive access to lifesaving treatments in the event of a bioterrorist attack, severe pandemic or natural disaster that overwhelms the medical system are being developed by Louisiana health professionals.

Anthrax

A New Hampshire woman has come down with the first reported case of anthrax infection in the state since 1957.

Israel will begin distributing its entire population with gas masks in two months, though no reason has officially been given by the Israeli government.

Anthrax

Blood tests carried out on a heroin user in Cumbria, England, have proven negative for anthrax infections so far, health officials have announced.

Anthrax

A second Glasgow heroin user has died from an anthrax infection, health officials have confirmed.

The Northeast Texas Public Health District has debuted a new website with a goal of making information on emergency preparedness information easily accessible to special needs residents.

Smallpox

While smallpox has been eradicated from the planet as a naturally occurring virus, it still remains a high level biothreat.

Anthrax

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development AUthority has awarded Pine Brook, N.J.-based Elusys Therapeutics, Inc., a contract for the advanced development of a medication to treat inhalational anthrax.

DNA Technology

California's Stanislaus County has announced plans to upgrade its health lab to add sophisticated equipment that will be used to test for potential bioterrorism agents.

Sen. Tim Johnson

Following the recent passing by Congress of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill, private sector projects in western South Dakota stand to receive over $14 million in new defense appropriations, some of which will be used to fight bioterror.

Southwestern Pennsylvania will receive more than $24 million in funding for projects, including some to fight bioterror, as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Act.

Almost eight battalions of India's National Disaster Response Force have readied themselves with prophylaxis for anthrax and nerve gas antidotes in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games that will take place in New Delhi.

NIAID

The University of Chicago Medical Center has been notified by the United States Department of Energy that it has full approval to commence operations at its new Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory.

U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar has announced on the floor of the Senate the success of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperation Threat Reduction program, which has, among other accomplishments, built and equipped a biological monitoring station in Kazakhstan.

Anthrax

A heroin user has been identified as the third case of anthrax infection in Glasgow, Scotland by health officials.

Phil Richardson, an Oklahoma State Representative, veterinarian and farmer, has taken aim at Oklahoma State University for its recent cancellation of an anthrax study that would have required testing and euthanasia on primates.

A new set of tools designed by the FDA and the United States Department of Agriculture aims to aid food-animal producers in mitigating risk of bioterrorism on the food production process.

Congressional investigators have recently announced that federal agencies are not working together properly to share data and personnel for the early detection of biological threats.

The children of U.S. service members and their families are now being provided with a protection system for use in the event of a biological or chemical attack.

Department of Defense

More than $3 million will be set aside for bioterrorism research in Maine by the Department of Defense's new appropriation bill, which has been sent to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Jim Inhofe

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), has voted for for the final passage of the Defense Appropriations bill that will send $3 million to Oklahoma State University to assist in developing a National Bio-Security Plan.

Department of Defense

Under the recently $636 billion Department of Defense appropriations bill passed by the Senate, Michigan companies will soon see grants to aid in the prevention of bioterrorism.

Ellwood City Hospital

Jameson and Ellwood City hospitals in Pennsylvania will receive a $1.6 million grant award to aid them in their fight against bioterrorism and pandemics.

Anthrax

No new cases of anthrax have arisen several days after two Glasgow heroin users tested positive for anthrax infections, health officials have said.

Barry Kellman

How should we cope with a massive anthrax attack, and how can we prepare now so that our coping is optimal?

Barry Kellman

Following his staff briefing at the House International Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism & Nonproliferation yesterday, Barry Kellman, president of the International Security & Biopolicy Institute, spoke with BioPrepWatch.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

A federally funded, five year, $18.8 million set of projects by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology aims to make inroads on defeating several diseases identified as bioterror threats.

A new study released next month that shows the standard risk analysis used by security risk analysts based on probabilities of uncertain hazards may not, in fact, capture the impact of an intelligent attacker's intent.

Anthrax

Health agencies in Scotland have been placed on alert following news that a drug user who recently died in a hospital tested positive for Anthrax.

Tobyhanna Army Depot

Employees of the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania have begun fabricating and populating over 1,700 kits that will enable soldiers worldwide to test water samples for biological and chemical threats as well as radiation.

Louise M. Slaughter

Western New York will be benefited by more than $11 million in local defense funding to combat biological agents from the Defense Appropriations Bill.

Tularemia

Positive top-line results have been announced by Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc., for its once-a-day, oral antibiotic Restanza to treat inhaled lethal doses of tularemia.

Jay Nixon

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has supported a proposal that would send millions of tax dollars to Missouri's biotechnology industry to allow it to keep pace with other states.

A recent report says that the recent spread of the H1N1 flu virus in the United States has shown that the medical care system is not prepared to handle the demands that a bioterrorist act would place upon it.

New York

New York has been named one of eight states to have met nine of 10 preparedness measures in the face of a pandemic, a first step in fighting a potential biological attack.

Britain's Royal Society

Britain's Royal Society has warned that more realistic exercises need to be conducted to improve emergency responses to both chemical and biological attacks.

General Physics Corporation has been honored with a 2009 Most Innovative Training Award by the Arkansas Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.

Homeland Security

New research from NASA indicates that technology designed to guard against Earthbound infections during space exploration could hold potential for counterterrorism methods.

SRI International has received a patent for a bioadhesive drug delivery system that uses the human body's mucous membranes to enable enhanced release of drugs through a needle-free option.

Anthrax

The American Express headquarters at 3 World Financial Center in New York City had to evacuate three floors of the building following an anthrax scare recently.

Donald Rumsfeld

Citizens of Pueblo, Colorado, have given a cool reception to the government's plan to blow up 16 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile there.

Allen Shofe

A plan to ensure Europe is prepared for a biologic attack has been laid out by Allen Shofe, senior vice president of public affairs at Emergent BioSoloutions, as part of the Security & Defence Agenda's "Raising Biopreparedness Levels in Europe" report.

Barry Kellman

As the Obama administration's new biological threat strategy shifts focus from mitigation to prevention, Congress's role in the new policy has yet to come into focus.

Israel's Home Front Command has begun joint exercises with Magen David Adom and the Shaare Tzedek Medical Center to prepare for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear missile attacks.

Barry Kellman

The Obama administration's recently announced biological weapons stance is, Professor Barry Kellman of the International Security and Biopolicy institute said, "crucial and complicated," and, he said, so nuanced that its hard for the lay reader to grasp.

Port of Buffalo

The Buffalo area will get federal anti-terrorism funding in the amount of $6.58 million in fiscal 2010, it has been announced.

Israel

In the face of potential biological and chemical attacks, the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command requires national infrastructure companies to purchase active protection full-body suits to allow them to operate in contaminated zones.

Sen. Mark Pryor

U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor has announced plans to file a bill that would make terrorist attacks, public health emergencies and man-made disasters eligible for federal emergency assistance.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced a new information sharing initiative that will aid federal, state and local first responders in communicating better during emergencies, including biological and terror attacks.

Universal Detection Technology has responded to the Department of Homeland Security's recent request for research proposals aimed at detecting and containing harmful bioagents used for bioterrorism, including anthrax.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

A five year, $14. million contract has been awarded to researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Pennsylvania from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A

XOMA Ltd. has announced results that demonstrate its monoclonal antibody technology XOMA 3AB's ability to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin Type A, a bioterror threat that causes paralysis.

DSO National Laboratories, Singapore's defense research and development organization, has created software to monitor the spread of chemical agents in real-time.

WMATA

Smiths Detection will provide Washington D.C.'s Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority with an upgrade of its PROTECT threat detection capabilities.

Barry Kellman

The United States has officially unveiled its strategy to crack down on biological weapons, though the new plan does not include international enforcement, which continues the Bush administrations' rejection of binding verification plans.

Foot and Mouth Disease

Questions have been raised about the safety of Kansas State's National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility with top safety experts telling citizens there is nothing to worry about.

Biosafety Level-4

Safety and simulation training has begun on Boston University's Biosafety Level-4 laboratory even as the National Institutes of Health continues weighing the labs safety options.

Tularemia

A recent study in the Journal of Biomedical Science has revealed that an autophagy-inducing agent introduced to the bacteria that causes tularemia in humans can eradicate the small-molecule agents that target innate immunity.

Barry Kellman, J.D.

"I would argue bioterrorism is the most viable threat of an enormous magnitude, far more than a nuclear attack," Barry Kellman, president of the International Security & Biopolicy Institute said. "There are many threats.

DNA

The Department of Health and Human Services has warned U.S. businesses trading in DNA to be on guard against abuses leading to bioterrorism.

Tularemia

A military researcher, working at the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has contracted a laboratory-acquired infection of tularemia.

A plan to use explosives to eliminate chemical weapons stockpiled in Colorado and Kentucky has been floated by army officials, arguing that it would improve safety while prevent lags in the nation's weapons destruction schedule.

Data examined by a German research team has shown that the supply and demand for blood transfusions during a pandemic situation could cause a severe depletion in available transfusion units.

Fuad El-Hibri

The Office of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has advised Emergent BioSolutions that while BARDA's Request for Proposal has been canceled, Emergent is encouraged to submit a proposal for the office's Broad Agency Announcement.

The biopharmaceutical company Elusys Therapeutics, Inc., has announced positive results for its Anthim anthrax anti-toxin program.

A recently revealed report, marked "sensitive," has surfaced as part of a load of documents uncovered by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), the Salt Lake Tribune has reported.

Industry representatives have said that new European Union counter-terrorist measures could increase administrative burdens on the chemical sector while duplicating security procedures.

Dr. Robin Robinson

The Office of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has announced that its Request for Proposal for the procurement of rPA vaccines has been canceled.

Skunk Odor as Chemical Weapon

A new form of chemical attack has been used on a prominent politician in the European city of Luxembourg.

New guidelines have been presented for genetic screening to prevent the possibility of bioterrism, dividing the opinions of scientists on the matter.

A sophisticated Health Department bioterrorism lab currently two years overdue for opening in Allegheny County shows no signs of opening by year's end.

Australia

ETW Corporation has begun the investigative process for taking over a United Kingdom-based company that carries the rights to a fabric coating process that protects soldiers against chemical and biological threats.

Tularemia

Four million dollars in stimulus package funds will be given to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago to aid in the development of new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The U.S. Homeland Security Department will release harmless gases and dye tracers into Boston's subway system next week to study the circulation of airborne contaminants through public transit networks in the event of a biological or chemical attack.

OPCW

Ahmet Üzümcü has recently been appointed the director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Biomagnetics Diagnostics, Corp.

Biomagnetics Diagnostics, Corp., has announced the finalization of a "Patent License Agreement" with Los Alamos National Security.

FilmArray PCR

A $3.3 million grant has been awarded to Idaho Technologies by the U.S. Defense Threat Agency to aid in continued development of the company's FilmArray PCR platform.

Anthrax

Medizone International, Inc., has announced that its proprietary AsepticSure technology has continuously broken decontamination barriers in tests, establishing it as an extremely potent sporicidal technology.

Emergency Vaccinations

More than 100 volunteers will take part in a rapid vaccination program in Brookline, Mass., this weekend to prepare the town for a serious pandemic situation or a bioterrorist attack.

Uganda

Uganda's minister of health has announced that the nation's government has raised a full alert through its national disease surveillance network for any possible biological or chemical terrorist attack.

Steven Chatfield

Steven Chatfield, Ph.D., has been appointed senior vice president of biodefense by Emergent BioSolutions, Inc.

Kathleen Sebelius

Plans have been announced by a top Obama administration official to proceed with a major review of the federal government's policies for developing public health defenses.

Small Pox

Bavarian Nordic A/S, focusing on biodefense, has announced that it expects to file a new drug submission for Imvamune, its third-generation smallpox vaccine.

Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc.

Howard Goldstein has been named to the position of executive vice president of commercial affairs at Microchip Biotechnologies, Inc.

Anne E. Derse

The United States and Lithuania have signed a protocol to strengthen cooperation between the two countries concerning the prevention of illegal transfer and trafficking in biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and related materials.

European Defense Agency

Plans to organize a biological, chemical and radiological explosives ordnance disposal training exercise have been announced by the European Defense Agency.

DNA

A set of guidelines for how providers of custom-made DNA sequences do business has been proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ronald Kessler

The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. Secret Service will not comment as to if anyone at last week's White House state dinner was screened for radiological or biological weapons.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

The emerging field of robotics technology has opened up a whole host of opportunities to fight terrorism, including methods to prevent infection after a bioterror attack or provide relief to those already affected.

Chemicals that could potentially be used in bioterror attacks will be replaced with safer alternatives following the passing of new legislation.

Rico Singleton

Virtual world terrorist attacks are nothing new to people who spend time playing video games but, for those living in the state of New York, video game systems could now be used to disseminate warnings about real terrorist threats as well.

A recently released report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general has raised questions about the safety of air cargo, leaving cargo vulnerable to a bioterror attack.

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is not currently facing a bioterrorism threat but it is not taking any chances.

Primates for testing

Oklahoma State University has put a stop to a project meant to test anthrax vaccines and treatment on baboons.

Smallpox

The biodefense company SIGA Technologies, which engages in the discovery, development and commercialization of products for use in defense against biological warfare agents, is expected to make a major announcement.

Baxter International, Inc., based in Deerfield, Illinois, has begun the investigation process to build a cell-based vaccine manufacturing plant in the U.S.

Peter T. King

Gatecrashers at President Obama's first state dinner have raised questions of how secure the president is kept and what steps are being taken to protect him from non-traditonal bioweapons.

Colonel Randy Larsen

U.S. Air Force Colonel Randy Larsen has an easy solution to the threat of biological attacks in America - immunize Americans against smallpox and anthrax.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that the country is ahead of schedule on destroying its chemical weapons stockpile.

The Seventh Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team at Fort Leonard Wood has completed two days of chemical attack training, saving Anytown, U.S.A. in the process.

Dennis Grimaud

DIATHERIX's Target Enriched Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction technology allows it to test for both viral and bacterial pathogens with a single test.

Israel has finished civilian exercises to aid in preparing its citizens for a chemical attack.

Cowpox

Research into deciphering the cowpox virus' genetic coding has revealed the potential to treat other diseases, including those that pose a biothreat such as ebola.

Fitzroy River

A previously unknown toxin with the potential to be used for bioterror has been found deep in Australia's Fitzroy River. The toxin, which has no smell, can only be seen under a microscope and is known to be poisonous to mammals.

Senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent

As the swine flu epidemic continues to steam ahead, leading pundits have begun to apply lessons learned from its spread to potential bioattacks.

A workshop on identifying potential chemical, biological and nuclear weapons has been completed by South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration.

The United States has maintained restrictions on the export of as many as 11 of its 16 dual use technology regimes to India, including on dual use technology in chemical and biological weapons.

Anthrax

Universal Detection Technology has demonstrated its latest development in bioweapon technology at the 2009 Milipol Conference, a five-agent biodetection handheld assay.

Microfluidic Chip

A tiny chip based on silicon produced by IBM's research labs in Zurich could soon be used by first responders to quickly diagnose dozens of diseases faster and with less blood required than normal.

Ricin

Kenneth Olsen, a Washington state man sentenced to 13 years in prison for plotting to poison his wife in with ricin in 2003, has asked for his conviction to be thrown out following the disgrace of a prosecution witness.

Nicola Roxon

Australia will be enhancing its already stringent requirements to secure biological disease agents following the passing of a new measure.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Soligenix, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company, has announced that is has formed a consortium to aid in developing thermostable technology to advance RiVax and other rapidly acting vaccines.

DNA

The five companies - DNA 2.0, GeneArt, GenScript, Integrated DNA Technologies and Blue Heron Biotechnology - provide 80 percent of global gene synthesis capacity.

URS Corp

The Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Pine Bluff, Ark., which is uses incineration technology to destroy chemical agent stockpiles, has recorded a major safety milestone.

MailDefender

The MailDefender might look like a cross between a safe and a washing machine but it could be the missing piece to protecting the public from lethal bio-agents sent through the mail.

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has announced that its researchers have presented positive data on progress as part of its federally funded preclinical viral hemorrhagic fever program.

Sarin

More than 232 metric tons of the nerve agent sarin have been destroyed by a Russian chemical weapons disposal site.

Joseph Lieberman

The ability of U.S. laboratories to conduct important biodefense research could be impaired by mandates included in new federal legislation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced.

An antiterrorism system featuring chemical-agent sensors and other high-tech security devices is expected to encircle midtown New York City by 2011.

Anders Hedegaard

The United States will pay the Danish biotechnology firm Bavarian Nordic as much as $40 million to adopt its smallpox vaccine so that it can be freeze-dried.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The life cycles of two virus types that could be used as biological weapons will be researched with funding from a National Institutes of Health agency with the hope of creating better treatments against them.

A Complete Response Letter has been sent to Human Genome Sciences, Inc., from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about HGS' request for the approval of its treatment for inhalational anthrax.

The delay to Human Genome Sciences' experimental anthrax drug appears inconsistent with published final rules governing the development of new drugs by the FDA, an HGS spokesperson has said.

Raxibacumab

Federal regulators have questioned the effectiveness of Human Genome Sciences, Inc.'s new anthrax treatment raxibacumab.

James R. Neal has joined XOMA Ltd., a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, as vice president of business development.

Ricin: made from castor beans

Scientists at the British government and military park Porton Down have announced the development of an antidote to the poison ricin that they say is ready to be manufactured.

Amtrak

Handheld sensors are being utilized by federal agents riding trains throughout the United States to detect biological or radiological materials that could potentially be used in an attack on a major metropolitan area.

Ebola

Federal stimulus money has been granted to the New England Primate Research Center for investigations and a contract tied to developing a vaccine for the Marburg and Ebola viruses.

Flu Vaccine

With H1N1 vaccinations efforts not going as smoothly as planned as lower-than-expected vaccine yields have reduced the number of doses available, questions have been raised about national preparation for biological attacks.

Rick Decker

Defense contractor General Dynamics and the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center have signed an agreement to work in tandem to roll out a new biological agent detector for commercial use.

Jing Li

NASA scientists have developed a new chemical sensor that allows iPhones to identify low airborne concentrations of chemicals including ammonia, chlorine gas and methane.

A Rockville, Maryland based biopharmaceutical company has purchased the East Baltimore bioscience nonprofit MdBio Foundation's 55,000-square-foot BioProcessing Center in East Baltimore.

U.S. health regulators have decline to approve a new experimental treatment for anthrax infection from Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

Public Health Agency of Canada

A recent audit has shown that Canadian government labs handling samples of swine flu and other viruses and bacteria are struggling to keep track of their pathogens.

Senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent

An interim report by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism states that the United States has failed to address the threat of bioterrorism.

The Stanford Research Institute International's new research facility in Harrisonburg, Va., has officially opened after four years of planning and construction.

Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office has released a new report calling for the naming of a central authority to oversee laboratories working with biological agents.

Ebola

A $198 million Boston University Medical Center biological defense laboratory complex's opening has been blocked by federal and state lawsuits brought by the public.

Humvee

Paint used to camouflage military vehicles by the United Kingdom could potentially become an enhanced method for protecting soldiers from chemical weapon attacks, researchers hope.

Marlies Glasius

This month, the States Parties to the International Criminal Court will come together in The Hague to prepare for their review of the Rome Statute, the ICC's governing document, in Uganda in 2010.

Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has completed the acquisition of a 55,000-square-foot manufacturing facility from MdBio Foundation and the land on which the facility stands from the city of Baltimore.

Breeding Bio Insecurity

Biological warfare has shaped human conflict throughout history. But the deadly anthrax-letter mailings following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks presented Americans with a threat new and terrifying.

Kathleen Vogel

The critical questions that frame the understanding of biological weapons include what biological weapons threaten the U.S.; how the threats have changed after the Cold War, the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the development of biotechnology; and how to bett

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is requesting proposals for a device that would enable faster, more accurate detection of a broad range of biological agents, writes Katie Drummond of Wired.com.

Chris Woolverton

KENT, Ohio — The increasing number of high-containment laboratories and the constant threat from emerging diseases and bioterrorism require more extensive biosafety training of the highest caliber.

Walter Moos

RI International opened a new facility for its Center for Advanced Drug Research, where scientists will work on developing vaccines, more quickly diagnosing infections and developing new treatments.

Penrose. C. Albright

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Penrose. C. “Parney” Albright, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, has been named the principal associate director of Global Security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Hendra Virus

A team of Australian and U.S. scientists believe they have found an antibody that could protect humans from the deadly Hendra virus, Australia's Northern Miner reported yesterday.

Michael Johnson

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $4 million federal grant to develop new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague, the university announced Nov. 10.

Anthrax

NEW YORK — A sixth U.N. mission in New York has received an envelope filled with a suspicious white powder, Reuters reported Nov. 11.

Thomas Inglesby

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced Nov. 11 that Thomas V. Inglesby is the new director and chief executive officer of the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC.

Ricin source

An anti-toxin that protects against ricin poisoning is to move into production for the first time, BBC News reported Nov. 11.

Barry Bochner

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Biolog Inc. $923,000 to help it develop a next-generation version of the firm's cell array technology.

Suspicious mail

NEW YORK — Looks like flour was the suspicious powder inside those envelopes sent to several United Nations missions.

Dr. Anita Barry

BOSTON — Sophisticated genetic fingerprinting confirmed that a laboratory experiment was the source of a bacterial infection that sickened a Boston University graduate student.

GTCbio

WASHINGTON, D.C. — GTCbio’s seventh annual Vaccines: All Things Considered conference is scheduled for Nov 9-10 in Washington.

Craig Fugate

ORLANDO, Fla. — FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate encouraged emergency managers to treat the public as a critical partner in disaster preparation.

Rick Cox

Rick Cox, senior planner of IEM Inc., has been elected global board chairman of the International Association of Emergency Managers.

Pamela L'Heureux

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pamela L'Heureux, director of emergency management in Waterboro, Maine, became president of the U.S. Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers on Nov. 4.

Tara O’Toole

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate confirmed Tara O’Toole to be undersecretary of the science and technology directorate at the Department of Homeland Security on Nov. 5.

Maxime Verhagen

The Netherlands is expected on Nov. 9 to request that the International Criminal Court expand its definition of what actions constitute war crimes to include the use of chemical and biological weapons.

NIAID

RESTON, Va. — Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to create a resource that supports research of pathogenic viruses.

Kim Jong Il

The U.S. military would take the lead in destroying or safeguarding North Korean weapons of mass destruction should the isolated Asian state fall into chaos.

HS Today

Predicting the occurrence of a terrorist event using a weapon of mass destruction is not possible under any approaches identified to date, concluded a recent report from a federally funded research corporation.

Susan Collins

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Nov. 4 recommended the Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act for a vote by the full Senate.

Don Elsey

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced Nov. 5 its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30.

Jay Rockefeller

The inspector general for the U.S. Homeland Security Department last month faulted one DHS agency for not doing enough to prevent chemical and biological weapons from being smuggled into the country, the Global Security Newswire reported Nov. 3.

Dennis Grimaud

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Diatherix Laboratories Inc. presented at the Michigan Security Network Homeland Security Market Leadership Conference on Nov. 4 in Dearborn, Mich.

Anthony S. Fauci

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded approximately $208 million to two programs that support research to better understand the human immune response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Dr. Jaap Goudsmit

Calmune Corp. announced Nov. 3 that it has entered an agreement with Crucell N.V. that will focus on research development, production and marketing of vaccines, proteins and antibodies that prevent and/or treat infectious diseases.

W. James Jackson

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced Sept. 30 that it was awarded a cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to further the development of one of its advanced anthrax vaccine candidates.

XOMA CEO Steven Engle

BERKELEY, Calif. — XOMA Ltd. and Kaketsuken have entered into a collaboration involving multiple proprietary XOMA antibody research and development technologies.

Robert Connelly

LEXINGTON, Mass. — Pulmatrix, a clinical stage biotechnology company, announced Nov. 2 that it has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

CEO Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. will webcast its presentation at two investor conferences in November.

Bill Frist

Nearly 100 leading global health organizations joined forces to recognize the first World Pneumonia Day on Nov. 2 and urge governments to take steps to fight pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of children.

Liquid explosive screening

PINE BROOK, N.J. — Smiths Detection announced a $21.9 million order from the Transportation Security Administration to supply portable liquid detection scanners for its Bottle Liquid Scanner program.

Shahul H. Ebrahim

The 2009 Hajj pilgrimage, expected to draw more than 2.5 million people from more than 160 countries to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia, may present a serious public health challenge.

Claire McCaskill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill added an amendment to the Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2009 that would prevent labs from doing research on high-risk biological agents if they violate security requirements.

Gregory Hartl

The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine on Nov. 2 to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people and left pharmacies without masks or flu remedies.

Security expo

LOS ANGELES — Universal Detection Technology announced Oct. 30 that it would showcase its TS-10-5-agent biodetection kit, at Milipol Paris, a worldwide exhibition of internal state security Nov. 17-21.

Allen Shofe

An action plan that seeks to strengthen European Union defenses against the threat of a WMD attack is being considered for enactment by the close of 2009, Europolitics Environment reported.

Suspicious mail

The customer service area of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle's central office in Richmond was evacuated briefly Oct. 28 after a suspicious white powder spilled out of an envelope in the agency's basement mailroom.

Dr. Robert Smith?

At first glance, fictional zombies, real diseases and mathematics do not seem to have very much in common, but Dr. Robert Smith? [sic] is putting all these elements to use in creating mathematical models for infectious diseases.

Nia Griffith

A member of Parliament is demanding reassurances that nothing remains of an anthrax bomb tested in a south Wales estuary during World War II.

Sen. Susan Collins

WASHINGTON — A key U.S. Senate committee Oct. 28 delayed the vote on legislation aimed at strengthening security at the country's biological research facilities, according to the Global Security Newswire.

Frances Townsend

NEW YORK — GSN: Government Security News announced 38 winners of its 2009 Homeland Security Awards on Oct. 29.

Smallpox

ALACHUA, Fla. — Nanotherapeutics Inc. has been awarded a $30.9 million, five-year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop an inhaled version of the injectable antiviral drug, cidofovir, for non-invasive, post-exp

Sen. Bob Graham

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The current shortage of H1N1 vaccine underscores the severe lack of U.S. preparedness in responding to pandemics, whether through natural disease transmission or manmade bioterrorist attacks.

Robert Rubin

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute was recently awarded a $4.4 million contract from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula

PRETORIA, South Africa — Dozens of measles cases have led to a 10-day quarantine and massive vaccination program at a correctional center in Johannesburg.

Plague-carrying flea

KAMPALA, Uganda — Health officials have launched a plague prevention campaign in the Nebbi district, which was most recently hit by the vector-borne disease a year ago.

Anthrax

WASHINGTON — Federal advisers said more data is needed to judge the effectiveness of Human Genome Sciences' anthrax treatment compared with existing anti-bacterial drugs, The Associated Press reported Oct. 27.

Gregg Mosley

Two companies have combined their products and created Mail Safe Check, a diagnostic tool to test incoming mail for pathogens.

Janet Napolitano

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced proposed guidelines Oct. 27 for protecting emergency responders during an anthrax attack on a major U.S. city.

Francisco Duque

MANILA — Doctors from the World Health Organization began arriving in Manila on Oct. 25 to help local authorities battle an outbreak of leptospirosis, a deadly byproduct of the recent flooding in the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces.

Staphylococcus aureus

Globalization and industrialization are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study released Oct. 26 has shown.

Dengue mosquito

High temperatures, humidity and low wind speed are associated with high occurrence of dengue fever according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.

Shabaana Khader

Immunologists have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends off bacteria that could lead to vaccines to prevent tularemia infection of the lungs.

Protective paint coating

Scientists are planning to develop a paint coating for military vehicles that would soak up a chemical warfare agent and then decontaminate itself.

Research to develop a new method to detect biological and chemical threats may also lead to new approaches for removing pollutants from the environment.

A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft.

Fighting Michigan’s well-documented economic struggles, industry leaders are looking for innovation that will help jumpstart the econo

The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat — biological proliferation and terrorism — concluded a report issued Oct. 21 by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

A Human Genome Sciences Inc. drug worked better than a placebo but similar to antibiotics for treating anthrax exposure in animal studies, U.S. drug reviewers said in a summary released Oct. 23.

The New Hampshire Department of Human Services asked all health regions to respond to a training scenario where there was a deliberate terrorist release of the biological agent anthrax.

Saudi Arabia this week is scheduled to host a U.N. workshop on the dangers posed by biological weapons.

SAN FRANCISCO — Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a producer of diagnostic systems and technology, on Oct. 19 announced the completion of its equity financing designed to fund entry into the Integrated Optical Biosensor Systems market.

Dr. Rita Colwell

The best defense against insider bioterrorist attacks is "a culture of trust and responsibility in the laboratory," according to a science panel report released Sept. 30.

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Sen. Brownback

An agreement on developing a new federal biodefense lab in Kansas indicates that the facility will be built and will be safe, members of the state's congressional delegation said Oct. 8.

Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker

FREDERICK, Md. — The U.S. military's flagship biological defense agency has broken ground on a $680 million headquarters building designed for expanded Army research on the world's deadliest pathogens.

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Mayor Ray Nagin

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrived in Cuba late Oct. 16 on a mission to learn about how to deal with storms, a spokeswoman said.

Janet Napolitano

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced new proposed standards for a 9/11 Commission-recommended program for the private sector to improve preparedness for disasters and emergencies.

Janet Napolitano

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urged government, communities and citizens to become more ready and resilient to face disasters ranging from terrorism to natural disasters to diseases.

Albany Medical College

ALBANY, N.Y. — Albany Medical College has been awarded a $4.6 million grant to fund its biodefense research against Francisella tularensis, the bacteria that causes tularemia.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced $88 million in funding for non-intrusive Inspection equipment to scan commercial traffic for contraband through X-ray and other imaging technologies.

UCLA has received a $4.8 million grant to establish a center that will facilitate research to strengthen the ability of federal, state and local public health agencies to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural and human-induced disasters.

South Carolina man pleads guilty to bioweapons plot
by Mary J. Lewis on October 17, 2009

A 25-year-old South Carolina man acknowledged plots to go after government officials with biological weapons and to demolish a U.S. navy site, The Associated Press reported.

Wisconsin National Guard

Throughout September, ReadyWisconsin and the Wisconsin Homeland Security Council encouraged organizations and individuals to prepare for disasters and emergencies as part of the annual nationwide Preparedness Month Campaign.

FORT RILEY, Kan. — Irwin Army Community Hospital prepared for disaster and emergency situations in a “mass casualty” exercise in September.

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early warning monitoring technologies and counter-terrorism training programs, announced Oct. 19 that it is preparing for inclusion in a disaster preparedness contract established in New York after Sept. 11,

Emergent BioSolutions launches biothrax.com
by Rita Uplend on October 17, 2009

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions has launched www.biothrax.com, a website that provides information about BioThrax, its vaccine for the prevention of anthrax infection.

PanThera Biopharma gets $1.6 million contract for botulism antidote research
by Mary J. Lewis on October 16, 2009

HONOLULU — PanThera Biopharma announced the award of a one-year, $1.6 million contract from the Department of Defense to advance the company's research of antidote for botulism.

Biosecurity panel’s findings heading to Obama
by Ted Purlain on October 16, 2009

WASHINGTON — The findings of a high-level panel that examined strategies to boost security at laboratories conducting research with dangerous diseases will be submitted to U.S. President Barack Obama soon.

UPMC, GE Healthcare create rapid-response manufacturing facility
by Mary J. Lewis on October 16, 2009

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and GE Healthcare are working together to battle bioterrorism and infectious diseases, in a partnership announced Oct. 12.

European Commission hopes to see action plan adopted by year end
by Paul Tinder on October 16, 2009

The European Commission hopes its CBRN action plan, designed to improve the EU’s defenses against the threat of a chemical, nuclear or bioterrorism attack, will be adopted by member states by the end of the year.

Roundtable discusses Europe’s biopreparedness awareness
by Mary J. Lewis on October 16, 2009

BRUSSELS — A roundtable discussion Oct. 14 focused on raising awareness in Europe about the importance of biopreparedness against naturally occurring pandemics and bioterrorism attacks.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He spoke to BioTerrorWatch about the need to make the United States safer from the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

Commissioner Thomas Farley

NEW YORK – The City’s Department of Health tested its readiness to respond to an anthrax attack with an antibiotics and vaccine distribution drill this week at a Lower East Side school.

CEO Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has submitted a development plan to the FDA for its Recombinant Protective Antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine candidate.

Chief Darrel Donatto

PALM BEACH – Don’t think it can’t happen here. It can. And, if it does, Palm Beach Fire-Rescue will be ready for it.

Jeffrey A. Romoff spoke to BioTerrorWatch about his plan to improve the nation's capacity to develop and manufacture countermeasures critical to national and homeland security.

William Small, Jr., MD

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The NIH has awarded DOR BioPharma a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant to support a clinical evlauat

Montreux, Switzerland

GENEVA – Members of US humanitarian aid groups learned how to deter biological terrorist attacks during a recent two-day training session in Montreux, Switzerland.

CEO Fuad El-Hibri

LANSING, Mich -- Security magazine has named Emergent BioSolutions to its "Security 500: The Biggest and Best Security Organizations." This is first time the magazine has honored Emergent.

Barry Kellman

The communities of experts and officials who focus on bioviolence (the intentional infliction of disease) have long considered smallpox (variola major) to be among the most terrifying bio-agents.

Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 18, 2009, that Fuad El-Hibri, its chairman and CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award in the Technology category in Greater Washington.

Daniel Abdun-Nabi

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 11, 2009, that it has met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its regulatory strategy for the development of its recombinant anthrax vaccine.

Anthrax

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 10, 2009, that its BioThrax anthrax vaccine has been granted a shelf life extension from three to four years by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Daniel J. Abdun-Nabi,

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced May 13, 2009, that it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a development plan for the company’s recombinant protective antigen anthrax vaccine candidate.

Anthrax

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced the launch of www.biothrax.com, a website that provides information about BioThrax, the only vaccine licensed by the U.S. FDA for the prevention of anthrax infection.

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced Feb. 12, 2009, that it can market and sell BioThrax in India now that the Drugs Controller General of India has issued a registration certificate for the anthrax vaccine.

Anthrax

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the National Press Club on Dec. 8, 2005, a panel of three internationally known biodefense and vaccine experts discussed the implementation of Project BioShield, the procurement process for biodefense vaccines.

Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of all assets and rights related to a recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology from VaxGen Inc.

Fuad El–Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md., and PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Emergent BioSolutions and Ninebio Sdn. Bhd. announced the formation of a joint venture in Malaysia that will focus on creating critical biologics infrastructure and supplying biodefense countermeasures.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions announced that the Michigan Economic Development Corp. has granted BioPort Corp.’s application for financial incentives associated with a planned investment in a manufacturing facility in Lansing, Mich.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions on Aug. 23, 2005, announced the opening of an office in Munich, Germany, dedicated to the expansion of markets throughout Europe and Asia.

Jerome M. Hauer

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Jerome M. Hauer, former acting assistant secretary for the Office of Public and Emergency Preparedness in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been named to its board of directors.

Anthrax

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has modified its contract and is purchasing an additional 5 million doses of BioThrax.

Ronald Richard

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced the appointment of Ronald Richard to its six-person board of directors.

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Trenton, N.J. hit with anthrax hoax letter
by Tina Redlup on February 23, 2010

India to play high priority on biodefense
by Nick Rees on February 22, 2010

Europe needs generic response plan to pandemic threats, expert says
by Ted Purlain on February 22, 2010

Nanomaterials could be key to fighting airborne biothreat
by Nick Rees on February 22, 2010

DOJ closes case on 2001 anthrax attacks
by Tina Redlup on February 22, 2010

Harvard study questions citizens' preparedness for anthrax attack
by Nick Rees on February 22, 2010

Suspicious package sent to Sen. Kerry's office
by Nick Rees on February 19, 2010

HHS Sec. Sebelius speaks on health preparedness
by Pat Dulnier on February 19, 2010

Anthrax scare at the U.N.
by on February 19, 2010

Death sentence for cult member in 1994 and 1995 sarin gas attacks
by Tina Redlup on February 19, 2010

Indian scientific experts call for better safeguards on hazardous materials
by Nick Rees on February 19, 2010

Smiths Detection to distribute BioCheck powder screening test kits
by Pat Dulnier on February 18, 2010

N.J. bank receives powder filled envelope
by Nick Rees on February 18, 2010

Camber Corp. to provide Edgewood Chemical Biological Center with support services
by Ted Purlain on February 18, 2010

Vermont welcomes CBRN glove manufacturing company
by Nick Rees on February 18, 2010