biosecurity

Midwest farmers are warily watching as one strain of a highly contagious bird flu virus infects and kills humans in China and another less-worrying but…

The former office manager for an animal disease research lab at Kansas State University faces a maximum of 10 years in jail and $750,000 in fines if…

Opponents of a controversial Kansas lab designed to study and combat biological diseases have recently found new energy, as work on the Department of…

Governor Sam Brownback says members of the president's administration continue to support the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, which is slated to…

The White House budget for 2013 provides no construction funding for a planned livestock disease lab in Kansas and calls for a “comprehensive assessment…

Kansas political leaders and top officials at Kansas State University are united in support of a plan to bring the nation's premier agricultural disease…

A committee of the National Research Council visited Kansas State University Friday to get a feel for safety concerns for a giant biosafety lab planned…

A new report says NBAF -- the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility -- could create 1300 jobs during the construction phase alone.The report was…

It’s been three years since the Department of Homeland Security chose Kansas as the site of its National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, but…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-816717.mp3The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, as it's known, is…

The Department of Homeland Security announced recently that a site near K-State in Manhattan, Kan., was on the short list to be the home of a new…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-563929.mp3Sen. Pat Roberts, the former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and…