The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated ...

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 ...

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 organism. World War I was still underway when the ...

The United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic has fallen short and has cost the country significantly in terms of human lives, economic growth and social cohesion. What’s more, the health ...

Washington, D.c= (Jan. 13, 2005) — After the anthrax attacks of fall 2001, Congress made the single largest investment in state and local public health capacities since World War II. But after ...

Soldiers of the 23rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team decontaminate their protective suits after sweeping the area utilizing special biological and chemical detectors in response to a ...

Los Angeles County is taking many of the right steps to prepare for a potential bioterrorist attack but needs to do a better job justifying how it spends grant money, federal officials have found.

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 ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria grown on a medium of sheep’s blood agar. B. pseudomallei is the bacterium responsible for causing melioidosis. (CDC/ Dr. Todd Parker, Audra Marsh) This piece ...

I am often asked by those concerned about the future what keeps me up at night. While nuclear war concerns me every single day, it's the threat of bioterrorism that leaves me sleepless. Warheads can ...