In between the Boston Marathon bombings and the devastating explosion in West, Texas, last week, Americans also heard about the interception of several pieces of mail meant for President Obama, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dramatically titled World at Risk report released in December 2008 by a US congressional commission predicting that a bioterrorist attack is likely in the next five years may have been aimed ...

Bioterrorism could significantly affect public health across the globe and cause major disruption in society. Even though the risk of bioterrorism is substantially low, a significant attack could ...

It took only one anthrax-related death in faraway Florida to convince Lawrence Township district officials that they needed to buffer their Indianapolis-area schools against biological terrorism.

Science is often framed in a positive light, but when it falls into the wrong hands it can do a whole lot more harm than good. This episode is about the historical use of biological agents, the ...

The Bush Administration's budget proposal for the fiscal year (FY) 2003 substantially boosts research to combat bioterrorism, is vague about programs to support biotechnology research, and offers ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump may have the nuclear codes, but when it comes to things to be scared about, think bigger. According to Bill Gates, bioterrorism could be even more deadly. The Microsoft ...