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Archive January - February 2004[Note: from this day forward, BiodefenseEducation.org starting using News Items for organizational purposes]
Research - A report that attempts to address how to balance the openess of scientific research with the potential dangerous uses it can be put to...
Francisella tularensis - A look at research being performed on Francisella tularensis at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Disease Surveillance - A look at the WHO's world wide disease surveillance system.
Public Policy - The non-profit organisation, Trust for America's Health, reports that more than 2 years after the Sept 11 attacks and after spending almost US$2 billion on bioterrorism preparedness, most US states are only "modestly" better prepared to respond to health emergencies. The report examines indicators to assess improvement and vulnerability, including rapid availability of funds, public-health infrastructure, and communications preparedness. The full report and related materials are posted here.
Yersinia Pestis - There has been a breakthough in a vaccine against Yersinia Pestis. Public Health - Judith Miller on how New York City is preparing to defend against an attack by Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Smallpox - A computer model of how to defend against a smallpox attack.
Agroterrorism - Targeted initiatives could reduce the vulnerabilities of American agriculture and food industries to deliberate acts of biological terrorism.
Smallpox - A baby showed signs of smallpox vaccine virus exposure after being breastfed by the wife of a US soldier given the jab. Ricin - A look at how the US Marine Corps Chemical and Biological Incident Response Team responded to the US Senate ricin attacks.
Anthrax - More anthrax cases are reported in Zimbabwe.
Research - The US plans to build a biodefense research campus, comprising several federal agencies, at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Ricin - Antidotes and vaccines for the poison could be on their way Disease Surveillance - A nice overview of the role disease surveillance systems play in biodefense.
Research - Judith Miller looks at the controversies over the construction of new BSL-3 and BSL-4 lab space, as well as whether biodefense research should be conducted in secrecy or in the open.
Anthrax - He says he's a patriot, and some on the front lines of the war against terror sing his praises. But his provocative life and career have kept him at the center of the FBI's frustrating hunt for the anthrax killer of 2001.
Self-Defense - A look at how some businesses are trying to protect themselves from bioterrorism.
History - Scientists have worked out how the virus which caused the world's worst ever influenza epidemic in 1918 infected man.
Ricin - More on the use of ricin as a bioweapon.
Ricin - A letter containing ricin is sent to the US Senate; it is also revealed that a letter containing ricin was sent to the White House last year.
Iraq - Nine months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. has still not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. An inside look at the hunt for WMD - and the still unanswered questions.
Smallpox - Is Al Quaeda trying to launch a biological attack against the U.S. by sending infected individuals onto airliners bound for the U.S.? The U.S. has intellgence to suggest so...
Anthrax - Slightly more than two years after some tainted letters caused five deaths and significant nationwide panic, the question remains: Is the United States more ready today than it was in 2001?
Public Health - How the SARS epidemic helped Singapore prepare for bioterrorist attacks.
Iraq - How could we have been so far off in our estimates of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs? A leading intelligence analyst, Ken Pollack, gives a detailed account of how and why we erred...
History - A review of the new book "Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World"
Vaccines - In the United Kingdom, the first official backing has been given for claims that the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers before the 1991 war with Iraq caused illnesses which became known as Gulf War syndrome. The innoculations included anthrax, botulism, plague and other biological warfare agents...
Clostridium Botulinum and Ricin - France claims to have arrested a terrorist cell dedicated to producing and dispensing botulism and ricin toxins.
Public Policy - More must be done to secure the world's supply of biological and chemical agents.
Smallpox - A description of the dangers posed by smallpox chimera viruses.
Welcome! - Today's stories cover all the biodefense stories from January 1, 2004 - January 9, 2004. We intend to update the site on a daily basis in the future.
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