Domestic Terrorism: Oklahoma City to Anthrax and Beyond
The Conflict
Numerous domestic terror groups are currently active in the United States. Some of these groups harbor an intense hatred and suspic...
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Anthrax
The deadly outbreaks of anthrax in the nineteenth century baffled farmers who were raising their cattle in fields that had been cleared of any infected animals. They did not understand the cau...
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Anthrax
Anthrax is a bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. It primarily affects livestock but can occasionally spread to humans, affecting the skin, intestines, or lungs. In humans, the in...
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Anthrax
Anthrax refers to a pulmonary disease that is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. This disease has been present since antiquity. It may be the sooty "morain" in the Book of Exodus, and...
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Anthrax, Terrorist Use as a Biological Weapon
During the past two decades, the potential use of biological weapons by terrorists has received a great deal of attention, particularly in the United Stat...
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Anthrax
The deadly outbreaks of anthrax in the nineteenth century baffled farmers who were raising their cattle in fields that had been cleared of any infected animals. They did not understand the cau...
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Anthrax
Anthrax is a bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. It usually affects cloven-hoofed animals, such as cattle, sheep, and goats, but it can occasionally spread to humans. Anthrax i...
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What is Anthrax and how is it transmitted? Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming "bacterium bacillus." Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic vertebrates (cat...
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Anthrax is a frightening disease caused by a colorless, odorless and tasteless bacterium in the form of a powder. The powder protects itself from sun, heat and disinfectant by forming a protective co...
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Lawyers for a former Army scientist once identified as "a person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks want a judge to order journalists to identify law enforcement sources who leaked details ab...
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A musician and a family member both contracted a non-contagious form of anthrax, apparently from imported animal skins used to make drums, officials said Wednesday.Mayor Mark Boughton described one...
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The government stands to waste $100 million a year if two federal agencies cannot agree to coordinate the use of a vaccine for the deadly anthrax bacterial disease.The departments of Defense and He...
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A New York Times columnist did not act with malice when writing about whether a former Army scientist was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks, a federal judge wrote in explaining his decision ...
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A graduate student whose bomb and anthrax threats shutdown the University of Missouri-Rolla was charged Wednesday with making terrorist threats and assaulting a law enforcement officer, the county ...
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A federal judge on Friday dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against The New York Times by a former Army scientist once identified as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks.U.S. District Jud...
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Five years after anthrax attacks left five dead and terrified America, scientists are reporting progress on developing a new vaccine they hope will work faster and with fewer side effects than...
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By now, millions of anthrax vaccine shots developed through cutting-edge genetic engineering were supposed to be filling a new national stockpile of biodefense drugs.
Instead, five ye...
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