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The Anthrax Investigation: The View From the FBI

(New York Times) First, the National Academy of Sciences report concluded that the anthrax in the mailings was consistent with the anthrax produced in Dr. Bruce Ivins's suite. The report stated, at the same time, that it was not possible to reach a definitive …

October 28, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, and Policy & Initiatives
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Docs Still at Front Line in Detecting Bioterrorism

(ABC News) Some individual clinician will be the key player the next time there's a covert bioterrorism attack, like the anthrax episode a decade ago. Despite a marked increase in resources aimed at detecting and …

October 27, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
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How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?

(New York Times) A few days after 9/11, a retired Air Force colonel named Randall Larsen entered the northwest gate of the White House, crossed a courtyard to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, stepped through the front door and stopped dead in his tracks. In place of the usual security checkpoint, there was an elaborate Read More »

October 27, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Policy & Initiatives
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Secret Reports: With Security Spotty, Many Had Access to Anthrax

(ProPublica) A sign on the door of a Biosafety Level-4 laboratory at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo) by Greg Gordon, McClatchy, and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica Oct. 24, 2011, …

October 25, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Research
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What Have We Learned from Anthrax?

(Center For American Progress) This October marks the 10th anniversary of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. In September and October 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were sent to several news outlets and two congressional offices. …