Biological Threats of Terrorism
The Conflict
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 attac...
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Bioterrorism
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 p...
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Bioterrorism
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 p...
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Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism refers to the use of lethal biological agents to wage terror against a civilian population. It differs from biological warfare in that it also thrives on public fear, which...
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With the human genome already decoded, science is at the height of its ingenuity. Everyday, millions of scientists worldwide are working to find cure for varies illnesses and diseases. Some have chan...
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The government can't identify all the research laboratories across the United States that handle dangerous organisms, creating problems for preventing bioterrorism plots, congressional investigator...
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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 T...
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To deal with potential bioterrorism, the government will focus on buying new medicines for anthrax, smallpox and acute radiation syndrome, according to a Bush administration plan.The plan's release...
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More than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. government cannot show how the $5 billion (euro3.8 billion) given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a bioter...
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The centralization of food production is a major reason for many of the outbreaks of food-borne illness across the nation, a senior official from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
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A 2-year-old Indiana boy and his mother contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination, according to a published report.The boy and his mother were ...
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A 2-year-old Indiana boy and his mother contracted a rare and life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination, according to a published report.The boy and his mother were ...
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A 2-year-old boy and his mother contracted a rare, life-threatening infection from his soldier father's smallpox vaccination, according to a published report.The boy developed a virulent rash over ...
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Biological Threats of Terrorism
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism
Editorial Analysis on Bioterror
Government unable to identify labs vulnerable to bioterrorism
