Tweet By Mark Slavo Because building a nuclear power plant in a heavily populated area, next to the ocean and near fourteen active fault lines turned out to be such a great idea, Department of Homeland Security has approved $50 million for the construction of a Bio-level 3 and 4 virus research facility geographically located in the center [...]
Tweet A Dutch scientist performing U.S.-backed biodefense research was able to modify an avian flu strain into a more virulent version of the lethal virus, eliciting concerns that the findings could be misappropriated for acts of biological terrorism, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on Friday. The U.S. National Institutes of Health requested that Rotterdam-based molecular virology [...]
Tweet Two members of a Georgia militia group on Wednesday entered pleas of not guilty to charges that they planned to produce and disseminate a deadly biotoxin in attacks aimed at undermining federal and state governments, the Associated Press reported. Ray Adams and Samuel Clump denied they had plotted to generate ricin from castor beans. [...]
Tweet Five U.S. urban centers have been awarded federal funding to implement plans to have U.S. Postal Service workers disperse medical countermeasures to area residents in the event of an anthrax attack, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Wednesday. The Boston Public Health Commission, the Philadelphia Public Health Department, the San [...]
Tweet By Martin Matishak Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The sarin nerve agent strikes carried out by a Japanese cult in the 1990s suggest that chemical weapons are a more viable and accessible option than biological materials for terrorists seeking to use a weapon of mass destruction, according to a new study. (Jul. 29) – [...]
Tweet July 22, 2011 The U.S. Army is set to re-evaluate how the nation’s present capacity to test experimental treatments for potential bioterror agents compares to demand, potentially resulting in curbs on plans for a 492,000-square-foot biodefense facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, the Frederick News-Post reported on Thursday . The planned Medical Countermeasures Test [...]
Tweet WASHINGTON — The United States still lacks an effective strategy to prevent or counter the potential loss or diversion of a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world, according to a senior Defense Department official (see GSN, Feb. 25). (Jun. 14) – A U.S. Army soldier clothed in WMD protection gear completes a [...]
Tweet Tuesday June, 21, 2011 A Massachusetts resident on Monday received a 15-year prison sentence for possession of ricin and for threatening a federal official, the Associated Press reported. Michael Crooker, 57, admitted in March to illegally possessing ricin, a potential bioterrorism agent that is lethal in very small quantities and has no known antidote. [...]
Tweet 2 June 2011 – Cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) continue to rise in Germany. Ten countries have now reported cases to WHO/Europe. As of 31 May 2011, nine patients in Germany have died of HUS, and six of EHEC. One person in Sweden has also died. There are [...]
Tweet The United States and Russia should destroy their remaining smallpox virus stocks and retain the option of reassembling the lethal agent for further study, two issue experts argued in a journal editorial released on Wednesday (see GSN, Feb. 25). The United States and Russia are the only countries known to possess live strains of [...]
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