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Ex-Bush Spokesman Blames Iraq Invasion on Faulty WMD Intel

Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer last Thursday said that valid intelligence on prewar Iraq’s suspected WMD capabilities would likely have prevented the 2003 invasion of the Middle Eastern state, the Idaho Mountain Express reported.

BSL-3 lab opposed, norovirus vaccine tested

A watchdog group on Mar 11 appealed a court ruling that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., can study deadly pathogens such as those that cause anthrax and plague. The group, Tri-Valley CAREs, filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging a September ruling of the US District Court in Oakland  Read More »

New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus

Scientists have found that an experimental vaccine against human norovirus — the bug behind 90 percent of highly contagious nonbacterial illnesses causing diarrhea and vomiting — generates a strong immune response in mice without causing the animals any harm. Using a novel viral vector-based method to grow and deliver the vaccine that has shown promise  Read More »

Anthrax in 2001 Letters Was Traced to Maryland by Genetic Mutations

The 2001 anthrax letter attacks panicked the nation. Ten years later, researchers are finally able to discuss how they identified the origins of the deadly bacteria, which they were able to trace to an Army research lab in Maryland.

Manassas, VA undertakes anthrax training exercise

Hundreds turned out Monday for an exercise at George C. Round Elementary School in Manassas that tested how local emergency responders fared when under terrorist attack. “The scenario is that anthrax has been released. The scenario says that it came on a region-wide newspaper … and we’ve been activated and told that we need to  Read More »

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