President Obama Releases National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats

Whitehouse.gov ^ | December 9, 2009 | n/a

[Cindy]

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-releases-national-strategy-countering-biological-threats

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release December 09, 2009

President Obama Releases National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats

Today, President Obama released the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. This Strategy outlines the President’s vision for addressing the challenges from proliferation of biological weapons or their use by terrorists. It highlights the beneficial nature of advances in the life sciences and their importance in combating infectious diseases of natural, accidental, and deliberate origin. It also outlines how the risks associated with misuse and potential consequences of a biological attack require tailored actions to prevent biological threats. Click HERE for the Strategy.

The Strategy emphasizes the need to (1) improve global access to the life sciences to combat infectious disease regardless of its cause; (2) establish and reinforce norms against the misuse of the life sciences; and (3) institute a suite of coordinated activities that collectively will help influence, identify, inhibit, and/or interdict those who seek to misuse the life sciences. Through this Strategy the United States Government will work with domestic and international partners on the following seven objectives to PROTECT against misuse of the life sciences to support biological weapons proliferation and terrorism:

Promote global health security: Increase the availability of and access to knowledge and products of the life sciences that can help reduce the impact from outbreaks of infectious disease whether of natural, accidental, or deliberate origin.

Reinforce norms of safe and responsible conduct: Reinforce a culture of responsibility, awareness, and vigilance among all who utilize and benefit from the life sciences to ensure that they are not diverted to harmful purpose.

Obtain timely and accurate insight on current and emerging risks:

Improve threat identification, notification, and assessment capabilities as well as our understanding as to the global progress and distribution of the life sciences to help identify and understand new and emerging challenges and inform appropriate actions to manage the evolving risk.

Take reasonable steps to reduce the potential for exploitation: Identify, sensitize, support, and otherwise safeguard knowledge and capabilities in the life sciences and related communities that could be vulnerable to misuse.

Expand our capability to prevent, attribute, and apprehend: Further hone our abilities to identify and stop those with ill intent to reduce the risk of single, multiple, or sequential attacks.

Communicate effectively with all stakeholders: Ensure the United States Government is advancing cogent, coherent, and coordinated messages.

Transform the international dialogue on biological threats: Promote a robust and sustained discussion among all nations as to the evolving biological threat and identify mutually agreed steps to counter it.

[Cindy]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/National_Strategy_for_Countering_BioThreats.pdf
“National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats
National Security Council
November 2009”

[shankbear]

Sounds like Obama’s bud, Tiger Woods, is the main biological threat going for now.

[Jet Jaguar]

Wow, only one part of the NSS and only 6 months late.

[freeangel]

I figure it’s something like bend over and kiss-—well, you know.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

This is pointless if the biological agent is genetically manipulated. For example, taking the virtues of pneumonic plague and the virtues of the Ebola virus and creating a “designer” biological agent.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

If its a “designer” genetically manipulated biological agent it would make all the great plagues in human history look like a walk in the park.

[ExTexasRedhead]

In my opinion, Zero, Pelosi, Reid, and 90% of the US Congress have already shown that they don’t care who lives and who dies in this country. I offer their DeathCare bill as evidence of that fact. They are willing and, it appears, anxious to abandon the unborn, the critically ill, and anyone else their Death Panels deem unworthy of medical care to prolong life. These immoral politicians won’t even talk to their constituents or listen to their pleas, so we’re to believe they care? They care about themselves; they care about power and constantly feed their own greed.

Power and greed are their God. They’re proving that the lives of Americans affected by their Death Panels are expendable; then who believes they care about our security? Sounds like a lot of hypocrites to me, how about you?

[freekitty]

Which means he will do nothing.

[The Comedian]

Here's a crazy idea: Put up the fence, and seal the border between us and that open sewer to the south, and decrease the threat of intentional biological agent insertion, or accidental natural infection, by 95%.

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