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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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Transcript of House Hearing on Biological Weapons Threat
July 23, 2001U.S. House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations held a hearing on the biological weapons threat. Witnesses included Senator Nunn and NTI Vice President of Biological Programs, Dr. Peggy Hamburg.
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U.S. Researchers Advance Possible Botulinum Toxin Treatments
Oct. 10, 2003U.S. researchers have discovered chemical compounds that prevent the effects of botulinum toxin at the enzyme level -- a finding that could aid in developing new treatments against the biological warfare agent, the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 30).
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U.S. Army Scientists Report Positive Result With New Ebola Treatment
Dec. 12, 2003U.S. Army scientists reported yesterday the first successful treatment of monkeys infected with Ebola, according to the New York Times (see GSN, Dec. 10).
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U.S. Officials Concerned About U.S. Vulnerability to Anthrax Attacks
Dec. 29, 2003Bush administration officials have said that there are new concerns about the vulnerability of the United States to anthrax attacks, noting the results of a recent attack simulation and information obtained from captured al-Qaeda operatives, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 2).
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Scientists Urge New Pentagon Agency to Restore Flagging Biological Defense Efforts
Jan. 23, 2004Saying that current U.S. military efforts to develop treatments and vaccines for potential biological weapon agents have “dismal prospects for successful results,” a group of top U.S. scientists yesterday urged the U.S. Defense Department to establish a new agency to consolidate the Pentagon’s multiple biological defense programs (see GSN, June 2, 2003; Vernon Loeb, Washington Post ...
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Scientists Report Success in Using Hepatitis Drug to Treat Anthrax
Feb. 20, 2004WASHINGTON — Anthrax treatment researchers at the University of Chicago reported success this week in using an already available drug intended to treat hepatitis B (see GSN, Oct. 8, 2003).
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Two Companies Report Progress in Anthrax Treatment
March 9, 2004Two U.S. companies have made progress in developing new treatments against anthrax, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Feb. 20).
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Infectious Disease Laboratory is Safe, University Says
April 21, 2004Boston University used ads in the city’s two newspapers yesterday to make its case for the safe nature and value of an infectious disease laboratory planned for a residential neighborhood (see GSN, April 14).
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Democrats Call Bioshield Weak on Future Weapons, Propose New Plan
May 5, 2004WASHINGTON — Seeking to plug what they called a gap in President George W. Bush’s plan to strengthen U.S. biological defenses, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday introduced legislation intended to shorten the time required to develop drugs to counter new varieties of infectious agents (see GSN, April 28).
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U.S. Senate Passes “Bioshield” Plan
May 20, 2004WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate yesterday voted 99-0 to establish a program that would use $5.6 billion over 10 years to stimulate private-sector development of vaccines and treatments against agents such as smallpox, anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague (see GSN, May 5).
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Health and Human Services Department Wants to Shift State Bioterror Funds to New Program
May 21, 2004U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told lawmakers yesterday that he intends to shift $55 million from state bioterrorism projects to a new federal “Cities Readiness Initiative,” the Washington Post reported (see GSN, Dec. 15, 2003).
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