This is a prime example of biological warfare’s potential scope, unpredictability, and terrifying simplicity. Moving forward to 1763, the British Army attmped to use smallpox as a weapon against ...

Last year, for example, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist described bioterrorism as “the greatest existential threat we have in the world today.” ...

This term bioterrorism has been around for some time and refers to the intentional use of pathogenic strains of microbes to cause disease or death. In truth, we have seen this scourge before: the ...

In particular, concerns about bioterrorism have increased significantly. For example, the federal government now has lifted the ban imposed earlier this week on crop-dusters flying.

For example, the number of NIH grants for work on Francisella tularensis increased from 4 in 2001 to 71 in 2003, although there are only 100 to 150 cases of tularemia in the United States each ...

Although chemical and biological agents are often grouped together in the context of “bioterrorism” they are technically different. Things like mustard or sarin gas are well-known examples of chemical ...

Bioterrorism The circumstances associated with the potential use of biological agents for terrorism are unlike those associated with conventional attacks. For example, the detection of an ...

While U.S. agencies have spent billions of dollars and initiated a number of new programs to counter bioterrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, those efforts were at times ad hoc, temporary or ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that are used to produce death and disease in humans, animals, ... For example, if an effective vaccine is developed against a ...

There are examples in history of bioterrorism being used to inflict mass casualties (the colonial British army notably used blankets infected with small pox to decimate attacking Native Americans).

Effective bioterrorism planning, prevention, and response require information sharing between various entities, ranging from public health authorities and health-care workers to national security ...

Substance in package at North Canaan facility tests negative for major bioterrorism agents, official says Story by Peter Yankowski, Brigitte Ruthman, Hana Ikramuddin, Staff Writers • 1w ...