Though many experts believe that the country acquired a sample of anthrax and other epidemiological bacteria from Japan in 1968, it's impossible to verify that it has actually developed a stockpile of the toxic agent.
HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have begun developing a stockpile of antiinfluenza drugs that includes oseltamivir phosphate, zanamivir, and rimantadine for future use should pandemic influenza occur.
If the experiments proceed, the next step is a transformer that can be quickly configured to take in power at a high voltage and give it back at a choice of different lower voltages, making them slightly more interchangeable, and then developing a strategic stockpile.
President Obama was wise to come back with a request for $1.5 billion to supplement medication stockpiles, develop a vaccine, improve monitoring and diagnostic capabilities and assist global efforts to stem the outbreak.
In this paper we develop a stochastic dynamic programming model to optimize China's stockpile policy with the objective of minimizing the discounted SPR policy costs over a finite time horizon.
It said that if there was not an initial agreement, Iran would grow its stockpiles of enriched uranium, install new centrifuges and develop a plutonium reactor in the city of Arak.
Laboratory capacity was increased to detect novel viruses and stockpiles of Tamiflu built up so we had something to treat it with before we could develop a vaccine.
UNICEF together with other partners is working on developing a polio vaccine stockpile to support the post-eradication period and the development by WHO of post-eradication immunization policies.
Reducing Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium to keep the country at least a year away from "breakout capacity" would ensure "that we can take military action to stop them" if it tried to develop a nuclear weapon, Obama said.
In addition, the letter gives details on other areas of contingency planning, adding that the Department of Health and Social Care has received "very good engagement from industry" on developing a six-week stockpile of prescription-only medicines and pharmacy medicines to ensure supply for patients is maintained across the NHS.
Under it, the federal government shouldered responsibility for developing a vaccine and stockpiling antivirals, and state and local governments were told to plan for the medical response and quarantine.
