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 ...

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 quicker response to funding applications for bioterrorism research is also promised. The NIAID hopes to reduce decision-making time from the current 9 or 10 months to 6 months after it receives ...

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 ...

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.

Unlike traditional warfare, bioterrorism, a terrorist attack that deploys viruses, bacteria, or other germs as weapons for the intent of massive human destruction, can be quietly insidious.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.