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Little Chance Seen of U.S. Reopening Anthrax Mailings Case

(GSN Daily News) A top Republican lawmaker said he sees little chance of the U.S. Justice Department reopening its probe into the 2001 anthrax mailings, despite persistent concerns about the conclusion that deceased Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins carried out the attacks, three news organizations reported on Friday (see GSN, Oct. 11). Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa)  Read More »

Why the Anthrax Murders Are Re-Surfacing 10 Years Later

(Gizmodo) Three scientists who recently published their concerns in the Journal of Bioterrorism and Biodefense say that the trace amounts of tin may have been used as a coating to make the anthrax easier to inhale, and that Ivins didn't have the skill required …

BU BioLab Triggers Community Concern

(BU Quad) According to the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory's (NEIDL) website, there are four levels of increasing containment labeled Biosafety levels 1-4 (BSL-1 to BSL-4) within the facility. BSL-1 and BSL-2 labs are considered low-level …

US unprepared for bioterrorism

(Nature.com) Bioterrorism is a significant threat to US citizens — and one which the nation is sorely unprepared to face, according to an assessment released today by the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center, a non-profit bipartisan research organisation based …

General License To Be Issued by OFAC for Food Exports to Iran and Sudan

Also excluded are Rosary/Jequirity peas, the source of ricin's more potent cousin abrin, which although more powerful than ricin is not known, according to the CDC, to have been weaponized or used in terrorist attacks. My favorite part of the new rule …

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