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Bioterrorism focus shifts to East Africa – UPI.com

Bioterrorism focus shifts to East AfricaUPI.comWASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) — A 20-year US effort to secure and destroy Cold War-era weapons of mass destruction has been expanded to guard against bioterrorism in East Africa. An article in the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society says the …Search for weapons of mass destruction expands to Read More »

April 13, 2011
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Army Starts Clinical Testing of Ricin Vaccine

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases on Wednesday announced the beginning of a clinical evaluation of a potential vaccine against the biological agent ricin (see GSN, April 16, 2010). The Phase 1 trial is intended to examine the safety of the ricin vaccine candidate and its capacity to produce an immune reaction Read More »

April 13, 2011
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Terrorists Might Try WMD Strike at London Olympics: Risk Report

A recent threat analysis says that terrorists might attempt to use an unconventional weapon against the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the London Independent reported on Sunday (see GSN, March 23, 2010). The British government’s security plan for the games warns of strikes involving “chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear substances.” It characterizes the Olympics as Read More »

April 13, 2011
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Nasal spray vaccines more effective against flu

(Society for General Microbiology) Nasal vaccines that effectively protect against flu, pneumonia and even bioterrorism agents such as Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, could soon be a possibility, according to research presented at the Society for General Microbiology’s Spring Conference in Harrogate. Professor Dennis Metzger describes how including a natural immune chemical with standard Read More »

April 12, 2011
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Wired: Danger Room Blog

Wired: Danger Room Blog) It was the biggest manhunt in FBI history. So it’s not surprising that investigators took all kinds of extraordinary measures to try to figure out who mailed the anthrax-filled letters that killed five people, scared the country half to death, and have jumped back into public consciousness, thanks to a series of Read More »