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UCLA Unveils New Laboratory to Fight Bioterrorism

ABC7 Los Angeles — We could be kept safer from disease and bio-terrorism by a one-of-a kind bio-laboratory unveiled Friday at the University of California, Los Angeles. The multi-million dollar lab has been in the making for a long time and can quickly detect disease to keep it from spreading. “It’s been 10 years,” said  Read More »

G-8 Nonproliferation Effort Renewed

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the world’s top industrial powers on Friday renewed the mandate of a program intended to prevent terrorists or rogue nations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, March 9.) The Group of Eight nations’ Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction will be maintained  Read More »

The anthrax killings: A troubled mind

LOS ANGELES TIMES — He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong.

‘Smallpox virus may become poor man’s atom bomb’

ECONOMIC TIMES — BANGALORE: The resolution by the World Health Organization (WHO) to hold on to the two last known remaining stocks of the smallpox virus for “crucial research” raises the spectre of bioterrorism, warns a leading Indian virologist.

FBI Is Pressed to Provide More Data on Anthrax Mailings

MAIN JUSTICE — Three years after the death of the prime suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, the case continues to spawn questions, the latest from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who has told the FBI he still doesn’t have all the answers about the attacks that killed 5 people and made at least  Read More »

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