Expert says nation unprepared for biological attack

 

BioPrepWatch

October 23, 2015

 

As the full U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee prepares for its October 28 hearing to assess the state of the nation’s biodefense, a voice from the field already has weighed in on the topic.“

 

Biodefense lacks centralized leadership," Asha M. George, director of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, recently told BioPrepWatch. "The entire enterprise is poorly coordinated, lacks for innovation and misses opportunities for collaboration."