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Releases
Global Disease Surveillance Network CHORDS to Increase Cooperation on Health Security with Support from NTI's Global Health and Security Initiative [pdf]
March 22, 2010
Marking a new era of cooperation on health security, a global gathering of disease surveillance health specialists concluded a three-day conference in Annecy, France.
Southeast Asian Nations Conduct Joint Exercise in Cambodia to Improve Flu Pandemic Response
[pdf]
March 14, 2007
Senior government officials from six Southeast Asian countries today completed a first-ever simulation exercise designed to test responses to a pandemic influenza emergency.
Sam Nunn says the U.S. Urgently Needs a National Biodefense Strategy [pdf]
Dec. 14, 2004
Newly Expanded Global System Will Help Detect Potential Public Health Threats [pdf]
Nov. 17, 2004
Government
Not Doing Enough to Secure Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
Weapons and Materials [pdf]
Oct. 2, 2003
Former Senators Warren Rudman (R-NH) and Sam Nunn (D-GA) team
up in an ad campaign to urge citizens to take action now to
help keep nuclear, biological and chemical weapons out of
the hands of terrorists.
WHO & NTI Establish Global Emergency Outbreak Response Fund [pdf]
December 2, 2002
The Fund will strengthen the global response to infectious disease outbreaks, whether naturally occurring or from the release of biological weapons.
U.S.
Not Prepared for Biological Weapons Attack [pdf]
July 23, 2001
In testimony before Congress, Senator Nunn describes "Dark
Winter," a recent simulation of a biological weapons
attack, and outlines actions needed to better prepare for
the possibility of such an attack.
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