Protection or Proliferation?
High Containment and Other Facilities of the US Biodefense Program

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This map is periodically updated. The current version is 2.55 (20 Feb 2006).
Reader comments and submissions are welcomed.
Information on reprinting this map.



IBC Minutes Archive

Backyard bioweapons in your neighborhood? Search our database minutes database for more info.


CRISP-ER

Enhanced version of NIH CRISP provides greater detail about biodefense grants.

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BIODEFENSE NEWS AND DISCUSSSION LISTSERVER

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Biosafety Bites #13 - #21
June 2006 - current

Biosafety Bites #1 - #12
June - September 2004

Reports from the front lines of the failing Institutional Biosafety Committee system.

 

PUBLICATIONS

26 June 2007
Texas A&M Bioweapons Infections More the Norm than the Exception
Culture of denial in evidence at Texas A&M - More accident examples
Previous:
Bioweapons Infections Hit Texas A&M Again (Q Fever / June 2007)
Previous: Texas A&M Violates Federal Bioweapons Law (Brucella / April 2007)

25 April 2007
Biosafety Archive for Biodefense Public Accountability
Backyard bioweapons in your neighborhood? Find out out here (maybe)

Updated: 24 April 2007
Rolling List of Bidders for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)

20 March 2006
Information concerning the 2006 survey of institutional biosafety committees

18 April 2005
Faulty Aerosol Chamber Infects Three

1 February
NIAID Grant Statistics
Anthrax: Up 3470%, Tularemia: Up 3100%, New PI's: 97%

31 January 2005
Tularemia: CDC Rejects Informing the Public
National implications on accidents & secrecy

16 November
Country Studies: Reports on France & Germany
Country Studies Home Page | News Release

4 October
Mandate for Failure: The IBC System in a Age of Bioweapons Research
Results of the Sunshine Project Institutional Biosafety Committee Survey

2 August
NIAID Biodefense Program Funds in Violation of Federal Biosafety Rules
Related Item: Biosafety Bites Series

10 June
Information concerning Southern Research Institute and the anthrax accident in Oakland, California

3 May
Federal Complaint Seeks Termination of Government Funding for Nine Biotechnology Research Institutions
Related Items: complaint and exhibits

14 April 2004
IBC Transparency Survey: Serious Problems Evident

28 October
The Thomas Butler Case: Some Unreported Information

9 October 2003
Lethal Virus from 1918 Genetically Reconstructed

 

 


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