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NAS: Gen-3 BioWatch Challenging but System Complements Public Health Surveillance

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Thursday, October 28th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker Development of a next-generation automated biological detection system for the United States must overcome challenging scientific and technical hurdles, but the existing BioWatch system and the next-generation system in development are complementary to the nation's public health surveillance system that relies on hospitals and public health agencies to detect biological threats, according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). "BioWatch has the potential to provide a more timely alert than the public health…

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