New York Presses To Deploy More Bioweapons Sensors
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NEW YORK -- City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation's newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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The mayor and local health officials on Tuesday asked the federal government for 600,000 more doses of flu vaccine so New Yorkers at highest risk can be protected.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that the city has joined an effort led by Illinois to obtain additional doses of flu vaccine from Europe to ease the nationwide shortage.
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Ministers will unveil plans to give health workers are to be given more protection against attacks in communities.
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Washington state health officials are making encouraging progress in bioterrorism preparedness. According to a recent report from the nonprofit Trust for America&#39;s health, our state has met six out of 10 criteria for bioterrorism preparedness.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the city had enough flu vaccine to inoculate the small children and elderly New Yorkers who are streaming into city-run health clinics.
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By Austin Fenner, Daily News, New York  Sep. 19--New York City's drinking water supply is being guarded  around-the-clock against toxic and biological weapons by an unlikely band of  sentinels -- the hardy bluegill fish.
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In a move to fix one of the most significant shortcomings in emergency response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York has hired Northrop Grumman Corp. to build a wireless broadband public safety communications network to allow the city's emergency personnel to communicate in real time.
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Under a Bloomberg administration proposal, individuals and companies would have to get a permit from the Police Department to buy or use a biological, chemical or radiological detector.
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The United States is unprepared not just for flu season, but for a worldwide pandemic or bioterrorism attack, say researchers outside the government.
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New York City joined Illinois' effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though U.S. regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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By Emma D. Sapong, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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By Jean Paul Vellotti  With a $700 million, 872,000-square-foot biotech incubator possibly breaking ground in New York City before 2007, local bioscience experts are thinking big.
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By Delthia Ricks, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun.
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Forget the megaphones. Police will have a much more high-tech &#151; and louder &#151; option to make themselves heard over the din of Manhattan traffic and noisy protesters outside the Republican National Convention.
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The city is reaching overseas to get 200,000 more flu vaccines, officials said yesterday as they revealed there already have been at least four flu-related deaths in New York this season.