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 ...

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, ...

As bioterrorism becomes a reality, US federal agencies are turning to biotechnology for new means of detection and safer therapeutics. But does the industry have all ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that are used to produce death and disease in humans, animals, or plants for terrorist purposes. These agents are typically ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dramatically titled World at Risk report released in December 2008 by a US congressional commission predicting that a bioterrorist attack is likely in the next five years may have been aimed ...

Fear that terrorists can use biological agents as weapons of mass destruction is significantly impacting the conduct of microbiological research. Abundant new funds are available for biodefence ...

Bioterrorism is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other agents used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants. Only modest microbiologic skills are needed to produce and ...

For the first 12 years, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) could not write about it. After 15 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was still identifying the six ...

A new case of alleged smuggling of biological materials into the US has occurred, with a Chinese student arrested on June 8 for posting four packages over a six month period to the University of ...

In the new movie Inferno, a super villain attempts to kill billions of humans with a genetically engineered super virus. The good news is that it's just a movie; the bad news is that there are actual ...