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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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Tuberculosis: North Korea Develops TB Laboratory with Help from American Doctors
March 2, 2010Published in The New York Times, the article details NTI's support for the development of a laboratory in North Korea that will be capable of identifying drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.
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Is the Avian Influenza Virus a Suitable Agent for a Biological Weapon?
Jan. 11, 2007Amanda Koch and Burke Zimmerman investigate the potential for avian influenza to be used as a biological weapon agent.
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Security and Public Health: How and Why do Public Health Emergencies Affect the Security of a Country?
Jan. 24, 2007In this 2007 article, Tamara Chapman and Raymond Zilinskas discuss the many challenges a public health emergency, such as a disease outbreak, can present for the security of a country.
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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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The Mountaintop: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
June 14, 2007Recognizing that we have arrived at a dangerous tipping point in the nuclear era, Senator Nunn spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations about the path that he, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Bill Perry have charted for advancing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons linked to specific steps to reduce nuclear dangers.
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Remarks to the Pacific Health Summit
June 11, 2007Sam Nunn, Co-Chairman of NTI, speaks at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle.
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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the House Committee on Government Reform
April 9, 2003Dr. Hamburg testifies on important concerns raised by the emergence and ongoing response to the SARS outbreak, as well as broader issues of emerging infections, public health and security.
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Announcement of the WHO-NTI Global Emergency Outbreak Response Fund
Dec. 2, 2002Announcement of the WHO-NTI Global Emergency Outbreak Response Fund
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House Lawmakers Unveil New WMD Bill
June 24, 2011WASHINGTON -- Members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday rolled out a new version of legislation aimed at augmenting federal efforts to prevent and respond to bioterror attacks and the threat posed by other weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, June 15).
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Dutch Export Controls Prevent Publication of Avian Influenza Data
April 11, 2012The Netherlands' export controls are preventing the international dissemination of a Dutch study that increased transmissibility of the avian flu virus, National Public Radio reported on Monday.
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Statement of Sam Nunn on Global Infectious Disease Surveillance Networks: Implementing the Bellagio Call for Action
April 28, 2009Important work on regional infectious disease surveillance continues to be one of NTI's highest priorities. NTI's GHSI has officially launched "Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance" (CORDS) to serve as a building block toward global cooperation and communication on effective disease surveillance.
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