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E. coli outbreak could be ‘copied by terrorists’

METRO — At least 19 people have died as a result of the highly toxic strain of E. coli and a further 1,800 have been hit by either bloody diarrhoea or the potentially fatal complication, haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Public health officials in Germany are still to identify the source of the outbreak and Dr Klaus-Dieter  Read More »

Food chain at risk of being poisoned by terrorist groups

THE TELEGRAPH — Manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically and politically motivated groups that may seek to cause widespread casualties and disruption by poisoning food supplies. The warning from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure [CPNI], which operates as part of the Security Service,  Read More »

Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare

NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE — Experts tend to arrange biological threats in tiers. And anthrax may very well have an entire shelf to itself. After all, it was a series of deadly letters containing anthrax sent through the mail just weeks after 9/11 that spawned the biodefense industry as it exists today. On the heels of  Read More »

UCLA Unveils New Laboratory to Fight Bioterrorism

ABC7 Los Angeles — We could be kept safer from disease and bio-terrorism by a one-of-a kind bio-laboratory unveiled Friday at the University of California, Los Angeles. The multi-million dollar lab has been in the making for a long time and can quickly detect disease to keep it from spreading. “It’s been 10 years,” said  Read More »

The anthrax killings: A troubled mind

LOS ANGELES TIMES — He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong.

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