Without a strategy and implementation plan, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and DOD's laboratory facilities that currently produce and handle BSAT may be unclear about DOD's strategy to harmonize operations, GAO found. Keep Reading
Secretary Alex Azar says "biological threats of a manmade, accidental, or naturally occurring nature are very real and they're growing." Keep Reading
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Outside the Geneva body, CRISPR’s use has raised ethical questions, but among UN members security ramifications dominated discussions. Keep Reading
Political organizations associated with Russian strategic aims have also promoted skepticism toward the scientific validity of vaccines. Keep Reading
Preparedness could be the difference between a contained local outbreak and a global pandemic if there was a smallpox attack in the Pacific today, a bioterrorism exercise held at UNSW Sydney discovered. Keep Reading
The churning hurricane waves dredged up buried sand and pulled up sediment that was full of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs — old manufacturing chemicals linked to health problems ranging from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Keep Reading
The study, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, is a cost-benefit analysis of closing the border in the event of a severe global pandemic. Keep Reading
Early response is critical to contain any viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) outbreaks, but it is especially difficult in remote and resource-challenged areas. Keep Reading
"UAVs and drones, that is our boogeyman right now... there's no teeth to anything that we can do." Keep Reading