In between the Boston Marathon bombings and the devastating explosion in West, Texas, last week, Americans also heard about the interception of several pieces of mail meant for President Obama, ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

Sometime during the summer of 1918, an influenza virus that had recently swept through the United States and Europe evolved into a far more virulent organism. World War I was still underway when the ...

A little over three years ago, a commission of experts, established by Congress, concluded that the chances were better than 50-50 that a weapon of mass destruction would be used in a terrorist attack ...

“But none have been charged with ‘bioterrorism.’ Apparently, this has remained as one more idea, which has not been put into practice.” According to InSight Crime, over 1,000 Venezuelan citizens are ...

All information for this article is taken from unclassified material. Most has been provided by a medical doctor and biomedical scientist who has an unconventional warfare background and prefers to be ...

A study of health care technology released this summer concludes that while information technology could help clinicians respond to bioterrorism events, current IT systems are inadequate to meet those ...

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 flu — ...

Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...

MILTON LEITENBERG, a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, is the author of "Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat." The book can be downloaded from the U.S. Army ...

It usually isn’t news to report when something didn’t happen, but in this case, it is worth noting: 2013 ended and there still hasn’t been a terrorist attack on America using weapons of mass ...

Given the shadow cast by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the recent anthrax scares in the US, it is no surprise that the growing threat posed by biological weapons was the main topic when the World ...