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.

With bioterrorism, the typical instruments we associate with aggression and war are no longer relevant. The source of our fear may be a vial of perfume or a fine white powder—even an umbrella.

This term bioterrorism has been around for some time and refers to the intentional use of pathogenic strains of microbes to cause disease or death. In truth, we have seen this scourge before: the ...

But we haven’t heard much about bioterrorism since the anthrax incidents that closely followed 9/11, a little over a decade ago. The truth is that America remains vulnerable to an attack that ...

Why America isn’t ready for bioterrorism.Sometime during the summer of 1918, an influenza virus that had recently swept through the United States and Europe evolved into a far more virulent ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, number 2, June 1997, “World at Risk: The Report of the “Federal Efforts to address the Threat of Bioterrorism”, December 2008, p. xv.

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 ...

a | Funding of bioterrorism research by the NIH (National Institutes of Health). Funding has increased from US $25 million in 2001 to US $1.5 billion in 2003, with a projected budget of US $1.6 ...

“In a real sense, bioterrorism is very much a perceived threat right now, so it’s important to keep things in perspective,” said Mr. Hagens of the National Resource Center for Safe Schools.

Behind Maduro's 'bioterrorism' accusations amid Venezuelan coronavirus crackdown Maduro walks back bizarre threat that isn't part of country's criminal code By Hollie McKay Fox News ...

In 1999, President-elect Trump himself warned in his book The America We Deserve about the need to better prepare for the threat of bioterrorism by stockpiling medicines, for instance.