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Did the Anthrax Attacks Kick-Start Iraq War?

On February 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations, to make the case for war in Iraq. A central plank of his presentation: the anthrax attacks that killed five people and helped send the country into a panic in the days after 9/11. “Less than a teaspoon-full of dry anthrax  Read More »

World TB Day — March 24, 2011

World TB Day is observed each year on March 24 to commemorate the date in 1882 when Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Worldwide, TB remains one of the leading causes of death from infectious disease. World TB Day provides an opportunity for TB programs, nongovernmental organizations,  Read More »

Stemming the Spread of Disease at Airports

With roughly two million people flying each day and spending hours in confined areas where they will come into close contact with potentially infected people, air travel poses a serious challenge to public health officials seeking to contain major disease outbreaks; last month public health officials scrambled to contain a potential mass outbreak of measles  Read More »

Ex-Bush Spokesman Blames Iraq Invasion on Faulty WMD Intel

Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer last Thursday said that valid intelligence on prewar Iraq’s suspected WMD capabilities would likely have prevented the 2003 invasion of the Middle Eastern state, the Idaho Mountain Express reported.

Committee Sharply Critiques WHO’s Pandemic Response

Eight months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the swine flu pandemic officially over, an independent expert group has given the global health agency a decidedly mixed evaluation of how it handled the entire episode, from the outbreak’s…

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