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New Tuberculosis Lab Hailed as Breakthrough in Health Diplomacy
March 12, 2010Published in Science magazine, the article details the threat of a tuberculosis epidemic in North Korea and efforts undertaken by NTI and others to build a tuberculosis lab.
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Public Private Partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)
Aug. 1, 2011A journal article published in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology (2011) Volume 17, describing a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance
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Between Publishing and Perishing? H5N1 Research Unleashes Unprecedented Dual-Use Research Controversy
May 3, 2012Recently, researchers in the Netherlands and the United States identified genetic mutations that could enable H5N1 bird flu to become easily transmissible from one human to another. Controversy has emerged about whether the details of these two particularly sensitive H5N1 studies should be openly published to aid global pandemic preparedness or withheld in the interests of national security. Because similar ...
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U.S. Funds Computer Modeling of Disease Outbreaks
May 5, 2004WASHINGTON — The United States plans to spend more than $28 million in hopes that computer bytes and scientists’ brains hold strategies for controlling an influenza epidemic or bioterror attack, the National Institutes of Health announced yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 13).
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Australia to Use $90 Million Against Bioterror, Flu
May 12, 2004Australia is set to spend $90 million to battle killer flu pandemics and the threat of biological attack, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported today (see GSN, April 6).
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Possible California Anthrax Exposure Raises Concerns
June 14, 2004The number of facilities performing anthrax research has increased significantly in recent years without corresponding regulation hikes, experts said last week following the possible exposure of seven California researchers to the biological agent (see GSN, June 11).
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British University Opens Disaster Response Center
July 29, 2004A British university yesterday opened a center to develop British and European protection procedures for chemical, biological and nuclear attacks, according to Associated Press.
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Maryland to Monitor Hospitals for Signs of Biological, Chemical Attacks
Aug. 26, 2009Maryland announced Monday that it would roll out an electronic network to monitor 46 hospitals in the state for early signs of chemical or biological weapon strikes as well as natural disease outbreaks, the Washington Business Journal reported (see GSN, July 14, 2008).
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Biosecurity Board Assessing Studies on Altered Bird Flu Virus
Dec. 1, 2011A U.S. biosecurity panel is assessing whether two separate studies that altered the avian flu virus should be published given concerns that such information could be abused by terrorists to create a biological weapon, the Science Insider reported last week.
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New Tuberculosis Lab Developed in North Korea with Support from NTI's Global Health and Security Initiative
Feb. 25, 2010North Korea's first laboratory for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is developed in collaboration with U.S. doctors and TB experts.
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Global Disease Surveillance Network CORDS to Increase Cooperation on Health Security with Support from NTI's Global Health and Security Initiative
March 22, 2010An international gathering of disease surveillance health specialists held a three-day conference in Annecy, France to discuss cooperation in addressing biological threats.
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Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance
The Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, centered in one of the world’s most turbulent regions, builds unprecedented cooperation among public health authorities in preparing for and responding to biosecurity and disease threats.
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