Joe Biden: “Senator Helms and I are proud to introduce today the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act of 2002. This bill authorizes $150…”

“Senator Helms and I are proud to introduce today the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act of 2002. This bill authorizes $150 million over the next 2 years to provide assistance to developing nations to improve global disease surveillance to help prevent and contain both biological weapons attacks and naturally occurring infectious disease outbreaks around the world. As the ranking member and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, respectively, Senator Helms and I recognize all too well that biological weapons are a global threat with no respect for borders. A terrorist group could launch a biological weapons attack in Mexico in the expectation that the epidemic would quickly spread to the United States.”