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 Thursday, April 1, 2004
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Search through the last 3 months of MEDLINE for articles with the following MESH terms:
Biological Warfare, Bioterrorism, Bacillus Anthracis, Anthrax, Smallpox, Yersinia Pestis, Botulism, Clostridium Botulinum, Tularemia, Francisella Tularensis, Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
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Posted on 4/1/04; 4:35:21 AM |
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Medical Device Daily - An overview of how the US is trying to defend against bioterrorism from the U.S. Army clinical coordinator for the Lab Response Network for Bioterroris.
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Posted on 4/1/04; 4:34:48 AM |
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Reason - The author opines that technology, not regulation, will protect us from bioterror.
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Posted on 4/1/04; 4:31:32 AM |
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Miami Herald - A high-ranking Bush administration official again accuses Cuba of dabbling in a bioweapons research and development program.
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Posted on 4/1/04; 4:30:01 AM |
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| Wednesday, March 31, 2004
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Government Executive - Despite reassurances from federal officials that the American food supply is among the safest in the world, a number of prominent authorities are urging Congress to revamp the federal food safety inspection system amid growing concerns about both naturally occurring disease and bioterrorism.
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Posted on 3/31/04; 5:07:26 AM |
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| Tuesday, March 30, 2004
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CNN - A federal judge gave the government another six months before it must prepare for trial in bioweapons scientist Steven Hatfill's defamation lawsuit over its investigation of him in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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Posted on 3/30/04; 4:19:27 AM |
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| Monday, March 29, 2004
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New York Times - Judith Miller on how 2 years after a report on the 2001 anthrax attacks was completed, the Pentagon has released parts of the unclassified document, which concludes that the nation is woefully ill-prepared to detect and respond to a bioterrorist assault.
The sanitized Pentagon report is here at the Federation of American Scientists (PDF format)
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Posted on 3/29/04; 4:41:28 AM |
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Los Angeles Times - The belief that Iraq had mobile factories to produce deadly biological weapons was based on information provided by a now-discredited defector.
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Posted on 3/29/04; 4:38:28 AM |
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| Saturday, March 27, 2004
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Washington Post - More and more members of the US military are questioning why they should be vaccinated against anthrax, given the failure to find any in Iraq.
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Posted on 3/27/04; 5:03:42 AM |
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| Friday, March 26, 2004
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HealthDayNews - Scientists have sequenced the genome of Cryptosporidium parvum, which the U.S. government considers it a "category B" biodefense pathogen.
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Posted on 3/26/04; 4:33:36 AM |
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| Thursday, March 25, 2004
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NIH - An experimental plague vaccine proved 100 percent effective when tested in a new mouse model for plague infection developed by scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
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Posted on 3/25/04; 5:46:08 AM |
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Atlanta Journal Constitution - Bioterrorism remains a pressing threat for which America continues to be significantly unprepared, leading government officials and researchers meeting in Atlanta warned Tuesday.
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Posted on 3/25/04; 5:38:15 AM |
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Associated Press - A former Texas Tech University professor on Wednesday appealed his convictions stemming from a bioterrorism scare and his handling of plague vials.
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Posted on 3/25/04; 5:33:21 AM |
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BBC - Hunting for - and eating - primate "bushmeat" is exposing humans to a form of virus carried by apes and monkeys, experts say.
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Posted on 3/25/04; 5:31:35 AM |
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| Wednesday, March 24, 2004
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Vanderbilt Hustler - How do you detect a disease - such as a genetically engineered one - that no one has ever encountered before? Researchers at Vanderbilt may have an answer...
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Posted on 3/24/04; 4:25:38 AM |
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Space.com - Scientists are hoping to stem future outbreaks using Earth-watching satellites capable of identifying potential disease hotspots before an outbreak has time to spread.
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Posted on 3/24/04; 4:22:53 AM |
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| Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Boston Globe - Will pharmaceutical companies profit from direct-to-consumer marketing of biodefense protective measures such as drugs and vaccines?
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Posted on 3/23/04; 4:31:50 PM |
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| Sunday, March 21, 2004
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US Army War College Parameters - A blueprint for conducting agricultural terrorism against the US.
"Before 11 September 2001, when American leaders prepared for war they envisioned enemies using bombs, tanks, guns, military force, and other traditional armaments. The attacks on that fateful day forever changed the way the United States and the world would view the nature of war. Using four hijacked commercial jetliners, terrorists attacked the United States, killing some 3,000 men and women. This surprise attack was not a symmetric attack, but an asymmetric one. Furthermore, a non-state entity conducted this attack at a relatively low cost of under $500,000. However, that may have been just the beginning. The success of the attack, and the devastation inflicted on the nation at a relatively low cost, will doubtless inspire our adversaries to continue to employ asymmetric methods to threaten and weaken the United States. Among those methods may be the introduction of an invasive species, a disease pathogen, or some other biological threat."
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Posted on 3/21/04; 3:55:28 AM |
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| Saturday, March 20, 2004
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BBC - US scientists have developed a vaccine for an inhaled form of the lethal toxin ricin.
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Posted on 3/20/04; 5:18:10 AM |
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| Friday, March 19, 2004
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University of Maryland Diamondback - Current regulations on biological research are not enough to prevent the creation of bio-terrorism agents and a possible catastrophe, claim researchers at the Center for International and Security Studies.
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Posted on 3/19/04; 5:57:58 AM |
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Washington Post - More needs to be done to enhance civil defenses against a bioterrorist attack.
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Posted on 3/19/04; 5:47:19 AM |
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Maryland Gazette - A look at Fort Detrick's BSL-4 Patient Isolation Suite.
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Posted on 3/19/04; 5:40:11 AM |
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Genome News Network - The first clinical trial to test an Ebola vaccine in humans is halfway complete, and researchers are seeking additional volunteers to begin the final phase. At the same time, researchers are pursuing two very different new vaccines that may prove more useful in outbreak situations.
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Posted on 3/19/04; 5:36:49 AM |
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| Thursday, March 18, 2004
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DARPATech 2004 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency maps out what their vision of the research future should be for methods to protect against bioterrorism. In PDF format.
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Posted on 3/18/04; 5:04:42 AM |
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| Wednesday, March 17, 2004
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Knight Ridder - The Iraqi National Congress, which was the source of exaggerated and fabricated intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the Bush administration also fed much of the same information to newspapers, news agencies and magazines in the United States, Britain and Australia.
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Posted on 3/17/04; 4:06:02 AM |
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| Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Journal of Medical Internet Research - Many people already look to the Internet for information during a public health crisis, and information found online can positively influence behavioral responses to such crises. However, the potential of the Internet to convey accurate health information and advice has not yet been realized.
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Posted on 3/16/04; 5:25:44 AM |
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| Monday, March 15, 2004
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United Press International - An analysis of the FBI's investigation into the anthrax attacks of 2001, and a suggestion as to why they have been unsuccessful.
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Posted on 3/15/04; 4:32:44 AM |
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| Sunday, March 14, 2004
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New York Times - Book reviews of two books describing the past and future threats from influenza.
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Posted on 3/14/04; 4:57:34 AM |
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CIDRAP - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week published guidelines for the development of drugs to treat the side effects of smallpox vaccination, an area in which the federal government is investing substantial research funds.
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Posted on 3/14/04; 4:54:52 AM |
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| Friday, March 12, 2004
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Washington Post - The government is preparing to buy enough experimental anthrax vaccine for 25 million people, a stockpile that would permit mass inoculations in numerous U.S. cities if terrorists launched a broad assault with the deadly germ.
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Posted on 3/12/04; 5:30:43 AM |
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Reuters - A look at the extensive biowarfare program conducted by Japan in World War II.
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Posted on 3/12/04; 5:27:58 AM |
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| Thursday, March 11, 2004
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National Geographic - The bubonic plague, or Black Death, may have originated in ancient Egypt, according to a new study.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:53:34 AM |
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Reuters - A test of anthrax vaccince delivered via skin patch is successful.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:50:48 AM |
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Associated Press - No leads yet in the ricin investigation.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:48:44 AM |
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Baltimore Sun - A look at The American Society for Microbiology biodefense conference this week, and the overall boost in biodefense research.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:44:10 AM |
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BBC - A new smallpox vaccine has produced encouraging results in tests on monkeys and mice. More details from the NIH.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:39:41 AM |
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New York Times - An expert on plague who caused a bioterrorism scare in January 2003 when he reported plague bacteria missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison even though a jury had cleared him of the most serious charges. More details at CNN.
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Posted on 3/11/04; 5:36:09 AM |
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2004
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The Scientist - More than two years after the US anthrax letter attacks, the standard testing procedures for detecting the disease on indoor surfaces remain unreliable and unproven, according to two scientists who have studied the problem.
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Posted on 3/10/04; 4:54:57 AM |
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Clinical Infectious Diseases - Lessons learned from Dark Winter, a senior-level exercise in 2001 that simulated a bioterrorist smallpox attack on the United States.
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Posted on 3/10/04; 4:51:32 AM |
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| Tuesday, March 9, 2004
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Washington Post - Two experimental drugs designed to treat anthrax infection have shown promise in recent tests.
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Posted on 3/9/04; 5:54:55 AM |
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| Monday, March 8, 2004
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Los Angeles Times - Can science provide the edge against bioterrorism? Skeptics say no.
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Posted on 3/8/04; 4:42:16 AM |
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| Sunday, March 7, 2004
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Acumen- Bioweapons are much more prevalent and virulent than we realize...and we have little defense. (PDF format)
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Posted on 3/7/04; 5:11:05 AM |
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| Saturday, March 6, 2004
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Salon - Is the federal rush to find antidotes for biological weapons is diverting essential funding from the fight against truly scary enemies -- like cancer? Click on the "Free Day Pass" to read the whole article.
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Posted on 3/6/04; 6:15:59 AM |
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| Friday, March 5, 2004
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Reuters - The U.S. government set up a special advisory board to recommend ways to keep legitimate scientific research from being turned to terrorist or warfare uses. The official NIH press release is here.
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Posted on 3/5/04; 5:53:30 AM |
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Daily Telegraph - A new anthrax vaccine designed to combat bioterrorist attacks is being tested on humans, it was announced yesterday.
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Posted on 3/5/04; 5:48:26 AM |
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| Thursday, March 4, 2004
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Mother Jones - Is the federal government's expansion of biodefense research paving the way for the bioweapons of the future?
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Posted on 3/4/04; 4:52:40 AM |
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| Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Penn State - Better disease reporting information on state health departments' Web sites could help physicians more quickly and easily determine how, when and where to report infectious diseases that may represent outbreaks or bioterrorism-related even
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Posted on 3/3/04; 4:57:45 AM |
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Star Ledger - Just how safe are biodefense labs? A researcher claims no one really knows...
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Posted on 3/3/04; 4:50:16 AM |
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Chicago Tribune - After expending millions of dollars and thousands of hours searching for him, authorities appear no closer to finding the criminal who sent anthrax through the mail shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Posted on 3/3/04; 4:47:30 AM |
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PBS Nova - An excellent overview of bioterrorism, produced in concert with New York Times reporters Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad. Read the transcript for complete details.
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Posted on 3/3/04; 4:44:02 AM |
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| Tuesday, March 2, 2004
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Associated Press - Taiwan will vaccinate its troops against anthrax.
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Posted on 3/2/04; 5:00:39 AM |
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Salon - Is the federal rush to find antidotes for biological weapons is diverting essential funding from the fight against truly scary enemies -- like cancer? Click on the "Free Day Pass" to read the whole article.
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Posted on 3/2/04; 4:58:52 AM |
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| Monday, March 1, 2004
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