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Public health leaders cite lessons of 2001 anthrax attacks

(CIDRAP News) Public health leaders, recalling and reflecting on the anthrax letter attacks of 2001 in a lengthy report released today, say the nation is better prepared to respond to such an emergency than it was 10 years ago, …

The germ hunters: lessons from Iraq

(Foreign Policy) An important new book on biological weapons and nonproliferation is being published this week. Amy E. Smithson's Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond (Stanford University Press) is a carefully researched and fascinating study of the …

Debating Bioweapons

(The Diplomat) The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will take place this December in Geneva. As I noted in April, the current president of the BWC, Paul van den Ijssel, has set out an ambitious course focused …

Reinventing Project BioShield

(Science Now) In the wake of the fall 2001 anthrax letter attacks, protecting against future bioterrorism attacks became a top priority for the US government, resulting in the creation of Project BioShield. This effort was intended to make available effective …

Complacency, lack of funds weaken US defense against bioterrorism

(Newsworks.org) A new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation includes first-person accounts from public health professionals about responding to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001. A decade later, the report calls complacency the biggest threat to bioterrorism preparedness. Over the years, steps have been taken to prepare  Read More »

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