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Proliferation of Drones Could Aid Biological Strikes

The proliferation of unmanned aircraft around the world has some experts worried the technology could be used by hostile states or extremist groups to disperse biological warfare agents, The Australian reported on Tuesday (see GSN, March 3, 2010). As technology improvements allow remotely controlled aircraft to shrink in size and be more easily transported, their  Read More »

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 …

NIH Awards $3.5M for Anthrax Vaccine Project

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded $3.5 million for work on a new anthrax vaccine by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Loyola University in Maryland, the San Francisco Business Times reported on Monday (see GSN, Oct. 4). “Nanolipoprotein” technology used in the development process could  Read More »

Biodefense report card says US still unprepared

(CIDRAP) The report's scale of biologic events ranges from small noncontagious events such as the anthrax letter attacks in 2001 to a global crisis, such as the one recently depicted in the movie Contagion. The group's review also provides an overview of …

Dive into the Anthrax Files

(ProPublica) The government's case against Bruce E. Ivins draws on a massive cache of documentary evidence to argue that he was the 2001 anthrax killer. We relied heavily on it in preparing this week's stories about Ivins with our partners, …

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