Fear that terrorists can use biological agents as weapons of mass destruction is significantly impacting the conduct of microbiological research. Abundant new funds are available for biodefence ...

A program intended to detect bioterrorism may come to a halt in Austin, the city's health department told Travis County Commissioners in a recent meeting.

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 ...

A 2011 study conducted by the Congressional Research Service observes that: “Unfortunately, the nature of the bioterrorism threat, with its high consequences and low frequency, ...

Bioterrorism agents are classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While this phrase became popular only in recent years, bioterrorism has been a threat to human society for centuries.

A little over three years ago, a commission of experts, established by Congress, concluded that the chances were better than 50-50 that a weapon of mass destruction would be used in a terrorist ...

The writer is a science commentator Move along, not much to see here. That seemed to be the message from OpenAI last week, about an experiment to see whether its advanced AI chatbot GPT-4 could help ...

Among the 60-70 infectious diseases that are tracked by the public health community, about ten constitute military biological warfare (BW) or bioterrorism threats. If the public health community is ...

bioterrorism-analysis. Bill Gates speaks during Peterson Institute 2013 Fiscal Summit on Facing the Future in Washington, DC in this May 7, 2013 file photo.

Tom Ridge and Joseph Lieberman: How Donald Trump Can Protect America from Bioterrorism 4 minute read Members of a U.S. Marine Corps' Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force demonstrate anthrax ...

Reporting from Washington — On its face, it’s just another Washington dispute about money. But a move by House Democrats to strip $2 billion from reserve funds for bioterrorism and pandemic ...

For bioterrorism, the Department of Homeland Security runs the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, which watches for trends in high-threat diseases.