Research
Biological Warfare

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Article 14: Is Anthrax Just The Beginning? What could be deadlier than anthrax? Try smallpox and the bubonic plague. Jim Matthews says that though the use of anthrax as a biological weapon is haunting, it is not nearly as frightening as the threat of attacks using smallpox or the bubonic plague...

Article 13: Researchers Make Progress In Understanding Anthrax Resistance Researchers have discovered that certain strains of mice are resistant to anthrax toxin. Progress is being made on understanding anthrax as a biological weapon...

Article 12: Biological Warfare Emerges As 21st-Century Threat Why is biophysicist Steven Block so concerned about smallpox? Block points out that frozen stocks of smallpox virus are still maintained by the governments of the United States and Russia and could be used as a biological weapon...

Article 11: Johns Hopkins Working Group On Civilian Biodefense Warns Tularemia -- Rabbit Fever -- Could Be Bioweapon Threat The highly infectious disease tularemia -— also known as rabbit fever -— could pose serious consequences if used as a biological weapon...

Article 10: Countries Need To Plan Effectively For "Deliberate Infections" - WHO Leader Urges Health Ministers Dr. Brundtland said that WHO is ready to assist countries if they should experience an attack with a biological weapon...

Article 9: UMass Chemist Working On Sensors That Could Eventually Identify Bioterror Agents Rotello’s research could eventually be used to identify diseases used as a biological weapon such as anthrax or smallpox...

Article 8: United States Ill-Equipped To Face Bioterrorists, Hopkins Expert Warns D.A. Henderson, M.D. says the virus is once again a threat to the United States and the world -- this time as a biological weapon...

Article 7: Anthrax Dectectors Are Coming A researcher working under an Office of Naval Research grant is just a couple of months away from completing a prototype detector designed to sound the alarm when an airborne biological weapon such as anthrax is in the air...

Article 6: University Of Missouri Researchers Discover Decontamination Treatment For Anthrax In response to the immediate threat of a biological weapon being used, researchers have developed a process that rapidly kills a wide range of microbes on any surface, including anthrax spores and viruses...

Article 5: Air Cleaning System Destroys Anthrax, Other Pathogens, Says University Of Florida Professor The system has been successfully tested against a close cousin of the anthrax bacteria used as a biological weapon and could be installed relatively inexpensively and quickly in office and home heating and air conditioning systems...

Article 4: Sandia Decontamination Foam May Be Tomorrow's Best First Response In A Chem-Bio Attack Emergency personnel responding to a terrorist release of a chemical or biological weapon will be faced with a dilemma: If they enter the scene without knowing the dangers, they might become a victim. If they wait to evaluate, more people might die...

Article 3: Bioterrorism fears tackled in special grand rounds at Fairchild Shelley Salpeter, MD gave a specially scheduled grand rounds lecture titled "Physician Preparedness for Bioterrorism" to educate physicians on what to do in case of a biological weapon attack. The article includes a picture of a man infected by the biological weapon Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)...

Article 2: New device helps track symptoms This new technology is designed to help public health agencies monitor selected signs and symptoms of patients coming to emergency rooms after encountering a biological weapon...

Article 1: The Decontamination of Anthrax and Other Biological Agents

• Part 1: The Decontamination of Anthrax and Other Biological Agents
• Part 2: Assuring that decontamination is successful
• Part 3: How can we kill anthrax?
• Part 4: Major challenges that government agencies face in decontaminating civilian facilities
• Part 5: Major research questions that must be answered to improve decontamination
• Part 6: Public health science