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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Smallpox, for example, is easily spread by coughing and sneezing. The disease was declared eradicated in 1980, but vials of the virus were saved and the whereabouts of some are uncertain.

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 ...

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 ...

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).

Reporting from Washington — On its face, it’s just another Washington dispute about money. But a move by House Democrats to strip $2 billion from reserve funds for bioterrorism and pandemic ...

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 ...