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U.S. faces growing biological threat

An international treaty banned biological warfare in 1975, but it had no inspection and verification plan; hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria and other pathogens were produced by the Soviet Union in violation of the treaty and only ordered destroyed in 1988 as the cold war ended; when U.S. scientists visited the anthrax burial sites, Read More »

January 28, 2011
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Brucellosis: new demands in a changing world.

Related Articles Brucellosis: new demands in a changing world. Prilozi. 2010 Jul;31(1):209-17 Authors: Neubauer H (Full text is available at http://www.manu.edu.mk/prilozi). Aim: To provide an up-to-date overview on the role of Brucella as a possible biological (B-) agent to be used in biological warfare, biological crimes and biological terrorism (with special respect to agroterrorism) scenarios. Read More »

January 28, 2011
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Gerald Epstein: No military angle to debate over small pox sample retention

There is an honest debate among scientists whether to destroy or retain the world’s last remaining smallpox sample; one argument that is not being made is these samples should be retained for possible use as a weapon; the assertion that some of U.S. scientists or government officials who argue for retaining the samples, do so Read More »

January 28, 2011
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Smallpox remains a large threat and issue of contention

Smallpox has been estimated to have taken the lives of an estimated 300-500 million people during the twentieth century; the last two known remaining locations of the virus which triggers the disease are the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) near Novosibirsk in Russia; Read More »

January 28, 2011
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Study Urges U.S. to Update Chem-Bio Defense Efforts

The U.S. Defense Department should revamp its chemical- and biological-weapon defense efforts in a bid to discourage antagonists from developing new lethal agents or employing such materials in a devastating attack, according to a newly published RAND Corp. report (see GSN, Nov. 8, 2010). “Given the inherent secrecy with which states and other actors will Read More »