Investigating Disease Outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000 The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons agents or delivery devices for anything other than peaceful purposes.
Mark Wheelis
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Strengthening biological security after COVID-19: Using cartoons for engaging life science stakeholders with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) [PDF]
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022 The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have acutely shown the need for maintaining robust international and national systems for biological security and ensuring that life sciences are used only for peaceful purposes.
Tatyana Novossiolova +3 more
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Journal of Biosafety and BiosecurityIn this paper we highlight how the apparent double coverage of toxins and bioregulators by both the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in fact masks a regulatory gap that has left such potentially ...
Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando
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Building and implementing a multi-level system of ethical code for biologists under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of the United Nations [PDF]
Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2021 The recent global COVID-19 pandemic has had profound economic and social impacts on the world. It has highlighted an urgent need to strengthen existing international biosecurity governance mechanisms to prevent the misuse and malicious abuse of life ...
Yang Xue, Lijun Shang, Weiwen Zhang
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Advances in neuroscience and the biological and toxin weapons convention. [PDF]
Biotechnol Res Int, 2011 This paper investigates the potential threat to the prohibition of the hostile misuse of the life sciences embodied in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention from the rapid advances in the field of neuroscience. The paper describes how the implications of advances in science and technology are considered at the Five Year Review Conferences of the ...
Dando M.
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Complementarity of International Instruments in the Field of Biosecurity [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the devastating impact of infectious disease outbreaks and the threat of emerging and re-emerging dangerous pathogens, independent of their origin.
Iris M. Vennis +5 more
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The vital importance of a web of prevention for effective biosafety and biosecurity in the twenty-first century [PDF]
One Health Outlook, 2021 Biological threats are complex and multifaceted, as evidenced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Their effective prevention and countering require multiple lines of collaborative action and sustained cross-sectorial coordination.
Tatyana A. Novossiolova +3 more
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Biomedical Community and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [PDF]
, 2001 Yes Negotiations to find a legally binding way to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) of 1972 [1]are in danger of failing. The crisis was precipitated during the current round of talks, now in its final week in Geneva, when the US, alone amongst the negotiating States, rejected the text of a protocol that has taken six and a ...
Dando, Malcolm, Whitby, Simon M.
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A Glycoprotein-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy–Lateral Flow Assay Method for Abrin and Ricin Detection [PDF]
ToxinsAbrin and ricin, both type II ribosome-inactivating proteins, are toxins of significant concern and are under international restriction by the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
Lan Xiao +8 more
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Rethinking the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention? [PDF]
Health Secur, 2017 Gerstein D, Giordano J.
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