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U.S. Restructures $1.5B Biodefense Research Effort

The U.S. Defense Department is significantly restructuring a 5-year-old, $1.5 billion program amid charges it is failing in its mission to develop countermeasures employable against large classes of potential biological warfare agents, Nature reported last week (see GSN, Jan. 18). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is incorporating elements of the Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative into  Read More »

Strategic National Stockpile Still Lacking Key Medical Treatments

The decade since the 2001 anthrax attacks has seen notable successes in efforts to build up the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile of medical countermeasures, but significant gaps remain in fielding treatments for a WMD incident, the Associated Press reported on Monday (see GSN, Feb. 8). (Sep. 27) – A corridor of the U.S. Strategic National  Read More »

New state lab to test for bioterrorism agents

(The Republic) NEW ORLEANS — For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, south Louisiana will soon have a state laboratory that can test for anthrax, ricin and other bioterrorism threats. Stephen Martin, director of Louisiana's public health …

VIDEO Preview, “The Anthrax Files”

FRONTLINE takes a hard look at the FBI's investigation of the country's most notorious act of bioterrorism. In the fall of 2001 envelopes carrying deadly …

Terror and Bioterror: 9/11 to 10/4 (Part 3)

(Wired News) 11 and Oct. 4, 2001, the United States was paralyzed by fear: First of terrorism, from the World Trade Center attacks, and then of bioterrorism, because so many government planners believed a biowarfare attack would follow a conventional one. …

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