Obama Shifts Bioterrorism Strategy To Preventive, But Congress Slow To Move -- The HillThe Obama administration’s new biological threat strategy has put the U.S. back in the forefront of the international community striving to thwart biological terrorist attacks, after spending years on the fringes, but Congress’s role remains to be seen.
Ellen Tauscher, the State Department’s undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, announced on Wednesday the new strategy that aims to forge a deeper relationship with other countries at a meeting of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva, Switzerland.
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