Bioterrorism is the use of a biological weapon against a civilian population. As with any form of terrorism, its purposes include the undermining of morale, creating chaos, or achieving political goals. Biological weapons use microorganisms and toxins...

Bioterrorism is the use of a biological weapon against civilian populations for the purpose of undermining morale and creating chaos. Biological weapons use microorganisms and toxins to produce disease and death in humans, livestock, and crops....

The use, or threat of use, of infectious or contagious agents with the aim of creating terror or to threaten, blackmail or incapacitate an enemy. The term has been used principally to describe the intentional release – usually by air blast...

The anthrax mail attacks in the United States in the fall of 2001 alerted an already terrorism-sensitive world to the dangers of biological terrorist attack. A silent and deadly weapon, biological agents could potentially take a great toll on a...

Bioterrorism is terrorism by intentional release or dissemination of biological agents (bacteria, viruses or toxins); these may be in a naturally-occurring or in a human-modified...

WAR AGAINST IRAQ BIOTERRORISM Fears grow of botulism attack on U.S. Nation's food supply seen as vulnerable to deadly toxin Associated Press Sunday, March 30, 2003 Washington -- Federal officials fear the nation is vulnerable to a bioterror...

On Oct. 17, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced that President Bush's $20 billion emergency relief budget request proposed $1.5 billion for combating bioterrorism. While recent events underscore the need for additional funds to combat the bioterrorism threat, the budgetary priorities of...

The government can't identify all the research laboratories across the United States that handle dangerous organisms, creating problems for preventing bioterrorism plots, congressional investigators found.The government monitors activities inside 409 laboratories approved to work with 72 of the world's deadliest organisms and poisons, including anthrax,...

A Taiwanese scientist who improperly obtained bacteria that could be used in a biochemical weapon was uncovered because the island's biosafety measures are reliable, a senior health official said Tuesday."The system is working effectively and transparently, which is good," said Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo, director of...

Most twentieth-century Americans found bioterrorism—the deliberate release of disease-causing microorganisms with the aim of causing devastating epidemics—unthinkable, perhaps even more so than nuclear war. Along with chemical warfare,...

The essay is an editorial analysis on restriction in the science community due to risk of bioterror.