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On one of the busiest transportation days of the year, flying or driving anywhere summons the sort of anxiety normally reserved for fluid mechanics midterms or biological warfare. We've all experienced it: That dreaded Wednesday, interstate traffic resembles downtown Cairo. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Boy Gets Rare Infection From Dad's Shot Mar 18, 2007
While smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980, small stocks of the virus still exist, leading to fears they could be used in biological warfare or terrorism. The virus that has affected the mother and son is not smallpox itself but a relative close enough to confer immunity. (Playfuls.com)
Letters to the Editor Mar 18, 2007
The world should remember that the war crimes committed by the Japanese government during its aggression toward its Asian neighbors in the 1930s and 1940s were not limited to the sex slaves, but included the Rape of Nanking, chemical and biological warfare and the Bataan Death March. Japan must acknowledge those wrongs before it can be accepted as a respected member of the international community. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Expelled Mar 17, 2007
They found an extensive wire tapping operation and two biological warfare laboratories. They also found evidence of an experiment to develop a live AIDs virus to be used against dissidents. (Suite101.com)
Agee: U.S., Latin America Trends Mar 15, 2007
All this they did against every effort by the United States to isolate them as an unacceptable example of independence and self-determination, using every dirty method including infiltration, sabotage, terrorism, assassination, economic and biological warfare and incessant lies in the cooperating media of many countries. I know these methods too well, having been a CIA officer in Latin America in the 1960s. (Zmag.org)
Art from the science lab: It's weird, but to what effect? Mar 14, 2007
The genetic alteration of plants and animals for all sorts of purposes will continue to evolve, as will technologies of biological warfare and bioterror, and the effects of such developments might not be known until it's too late. But as happens too frequently with science- and technology-themed shows, the art presented by "It's Alive!" only illustrates a topic that you can learn more about by regularly perusing the science section of any major metropolitan newspaper. (Boston Globe)
CLAUDE SALHANI: Cloak and dagger confab Mar 12, 2007
One American who specializes in biological warfare has been paying particular attention to advances in the biowar arsenal being developed by a Middle Eastern country said she was followed on a trans-Atlantic flight by two agents from the country in question. While the conference offered interesting insight into the world of terrorist tactics it had its shortcomings; and one can easily name two. (Washington Times)
Underwood: Japan War Victims Mar 7, 2007
Japanese lawyers, historians and citizen activists have vigorously supported the more than two dozen lawsuits filed by Chinese victims of biological warfare, abandoned chemical weapons, the Nanjing massacre, the Pingdingshan massacre, indiscriminate aerial bombing, military sexual slavery, and forced labor in Japan ... For example, whereas the Japanese government today insists it knows nothing about the activities of , a Tokyo court concluded that the unit killed many Chinese through biological... (Zmag.org)
Ex-insider: Cuba has bioweapons Mar 1, 2007
The former chief of Cuba's military medical services is calling for international weapons inspections of a secret underground lab near Havana, where he says the government is creating biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism and yellow fever ... After living here quietly for four years, this week Ortega went on the Spanish-language media circuit to denounce what he claims is an advanced offensive biological warfare weapons program ... Ortega is believed to be the first defector with... (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
Florida Senate candidate says yes Mar 1, 2007
Cohen's letter concluded by telling Thurmond that the Department of Defense "remains vigilant to the concerns posed by Castro's Cuba." Attached to the letter was the defense secretary's classified report, "The Cuba Threat to U.S. National Security." The report's publicly released summary read: "Cuba's biotechnology industry is one of the most advanced in emerging countries and would be capable of producing biological warfare agents.". That same year, the CIA released a report that warned of the... (WorldNetDaily)
'Dr Death' defends practice Feb 26, 2007
Apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert, Dr Wouter Basson, will defend his medical practice after it emerged that he would be charged for his role in the army's weapons programme, the Cape Times reported on Monday. Complaints were lodged with the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) about Basson's role in Project Coast, a top-secret programme which included attempts to develop bacteria capable of killing black people or make them infertile. (iAfrica.com)
K-State National Agricultural Biosecurity Center director speaker at AAAS Biosecurity Symposium Feb 19, 2007
He served as the chief inspector on three United Nations special commission biological warfare inspection missions to Iraq, and as a technical adviser on long-term monitoring. He also served as a member of the first two United States/United Kingdom teams that visited Russia in support of the Trilateral Joint Statement on Biological Weapons, and as a member of the Trilateral Experts' Committee for biological weapons negotiations. (EurekAlert!)
Iemma versus Debnam. What should they debate? Feb 16, 2007
1 The proposal for biological warfare outlined by the Libs. Who needs terrorists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Native Americans misrepresented Feb 13, 2007
Government bounties were advertised to encourage settlers to kill the native inhabitants and, in one of our first acts of biological warfare, blankets infected with small-pox were intentionally gifted to the Indians. It is bad enough that we attempt to minimize these atrocities in our history books. (The New Hampshire, NH)
The US's pricey fighting flops Feb 10, 2007
Earlier recorded instances of biological warfare - catapulting carcasses of dead animals into walled cities under siege and handing native Americans disease-laden blankets - introduced difficult-to-control pathogens into warfare. But the widespread use of poison gas in World War I represented a new and systematic use of substances other than explosives, kinetic energy, or piercing devices to kill or incapacitate people. (Asia Times Online)
Bush asks Congress to give him billions of dollars more for Iraq Feb 6, 2007
"Boyle traces advocacy for aggressive biowarfare back to the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century(PNAC), whose members, including Paul Wolfowitz, later influenced President Geoge Bush's military and foreign policy. Before assuming his current post as World Bank head, Wolfowitz served Bush as deputy secretary of defense.Before the anthrax attacks on Congress, PNAC advocated "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare... (Scotsman)
Glad global warming left us for a while Feb 6, 2007
To Steve Kulas wrote on February 05, 2007 8:30 AM:"I liked your article. We need to do everything we can to improve our usage of fossil fuels. To control global warming (provided humans are responsible and it's not a natural occurrence) here are several sure fire ways to turn the problem around. No more intervention or aid to tsunami, hurricane, earthquake, tornado or volcano disasters and the victims. No more medical research, free or assisted health care or prescription coverage. No more bans... (Winona Daily News, MN)
Questions about germ warfare still plague Feb 6, 2007
With some notable exceptions, "The Living Weapon," produced, written, and directed by John Rubin, is a flat, linear look at the history of the American biological warfare program that begins during World War II and ends with the renunciation of biological weapons by Richard Nixon in 1969 ... The American government made this dreadful decision to avoid questions about its own biological warfare program ... In the '60s, domestic opposition mounted as American forces used tear gas and the toxic... (Boston Globe -- Living)
United States's Feb 6, 2007
It was revealed that the United States government was selling old declassified reports to the general public with titles such as The Stability of Botulinum Toxin in Common Beverages and Development of 'N' for Offensive Use in Biological Warfare. Botulinum is the most poisonous substance known; N was the military code word for. (Harper's Magazine)
Monday's best bets Feb 4, 2007 United States Jan 30, 2007 Risk confidence — By thinking the unthinkable, preparedness expert is ready for emergency Jan 28, 2007 Animal tests provide insight into 1918 flu virus Jan 19, 2007 County hires new sanitarian Jan 17, 2007 An American waged germ warfare against U.S. in WWI Jan 15, 2007 Castro's Cuba: Quo Vadis? Jan 12, 2007 Scientists Leverage Robotic Diagnostic Technology To Diagnose Plant Diseases Jan 9, 2007 Affinium Pharmaceuticals Awarded US$4.8 Million Biodefense Research Contract by United States Department of Defense/DTRA Jan 4, 2007
We think of biological warfare as something the "other guys" use; Americans would never do that. or would we. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Opponents question legality, impact o... Jan 30, 2007
Korch, then deputy director of a Department of Homeland Security center that is also part of the planned biodefense campus, said the research could include developing aerosols containing deadly germs and new methods of delivering biological warfare agents. Some arms control advocates also have warned that work planned at the biodefense campus may violate the Biological Weapons Convention and encourage other countries to follow suit. (Frederick News-Post)
Democratic Representative Loretta Sanchez cancelled a Playboy Mansion fundraiser after objected to it. 5 billion plan to fight , of which $1. (Harper's Magazine)
"Since I was 8. You develop a thick skin." Here's what she tells people who say it's silly to prepare for long shots for fallout and EMP and biological warfare and earthquakes that jar the Wasatch Front in the middle of winter: "You have to be right every day. I only have to be right once.". E-mail. (Deseret News)
"We know this virus is different. We want to know what is different about it,'' said University of Wisconsin virology Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led the research. The findings are the latest from a remarkable and unnerving effort that began in 1995 to reconstruct the Spanish flu virus. First, researchers reassembled the genetic code that serves as a blueprint for the virus by piecing together fragments of Spanish flu genes taken from victims of the pandemic. One of those victims had been... (San Francisco Chronicle)
He said his role in the group is the responsibility of dealing with water supplies and monitoring air quality in the case of chemical or biological warfare and natural disasters. To visit with the Steve Anderson about issues related to wells, septic systems, water or radon testing or to fill out a new construction application or pick up a radon kit stop in to the Hancock County Public Health Service office at 545 State St. in Garner or call (641) 923-3676. (Forest City Summit, IO)
In his basement, he set up a small laboratory and, on behalf of the General Staff in Berlin, he began a highly secret campaign to wage biological warfare on U.S. soil. His target would be the horses and cattle supplied to the Allied armies by the then-neutral United States, and Dilger set about cultivating anthrax bacteria and Pseudomonas mallei, the germ that causes glanders, a crippling equine disease. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bolton stated, The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states. (Ocnus.net)
-- Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of. . (Science Daily)
The contract will fund preclinical studies of selected compounds from Affinium's fatty acid biosynthesis inhibitor portfolio that have demonstrated potential as therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by serious pathogens including Francisella tularensis, a potential biological warfare and bioterrorism agent. This DTRA contract builds on Affinium's previous successful research into the inhibition of Francisella tularensis conducted with the US National Institute of Allergy and... (Canada Newswire)
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