In between the Boston Marathon bombings and the devastating explosion in West, Texas, last week, Americans also heard about the interception of several pieces of mail meant for President Obama, ...

Prompted by the recent anthrax scare in the US, the Bush administration is to enhance bioterrorism research programs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

All information for this article is taken from unclassified material. Most has been provided by a medical doctor and biomedical scientist who has an unconventional warfare background and prefers to be ...

The dramatically titled World at Risk report released in December 2008 by a US congressional commission predicting that a bioterrorist attack is likely in the next five years may have been aimed ...

The United States government has been boosting its investment in research to combat biological weapons threats, funding a broadening range of programs in public health and law enforcement (Nature Med.

It took only one anthrax-related death in faraway Florida to convince Lawrence Township district officials that they needed to buffer their Indianapolis-area schools against biological terrorism.

President Donald Trump may have the nuclear codes, but when it comes to things to be scared about, think bigger. According to Bill Gates, bioterrorism could be even more deadly. The Microsoft ...

Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...

Years before the coronavirus battered the globe, Bill Gates warned that governments weren't prepared for a pandemic. Now, he's calling out the threats of bioterrorism and climate change. "The number ...

In the new movie Inferno, a super villain attempts to kill billions of humans with a genetically engineered super virus. The good news is that it's just a movie; the bad news is that there are actual ...

In the 1990s, the cacao farmers of Brazil fell into a collective depression. Some hanged themselves, others dosed themselves with rat poison, still others walked around crying and saying they didn't ...