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Bioterrorism center moves to University of Pittsburgh

Emergency Management Alert, September 23, 2003

A national center on bioterrorism and biological warfare plans to move to the University of Pittsburgh from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Reuters reports.

Experts at the center said September 17 that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) integrated hospital system provided an example of how the nation should prepare for a chemical or biological attack. The biodefense team would remain in Baltimore, but will be associated with the Pittsburgh system instead of Johns Hopkins.

The new center will be called the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, effective November 1. In addition to its Baltimore headquarters, the new center will have offices in Pittsburgh and Washington, DC.

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