The anthrax-laced letters mailed in the fall of 2001 infected twenty-three people and killed five—a toll that only hinted at the damage bioterrorism could cause. In a 2001 government exercise called ...

Local emergency management officials hooked up with their counterparts from around the nation by satellite Thursday to discuss how to handle a bioterrorism attack. Participants in the event, hosted at ...

The circumstances associated with the potential use of biological agents for terrorism are unlike those associated with conventional attacks. For example, the detection of an attack may not be ...

Effective bioterrorism planning, prevention, and response require information sharing between various entities, ranging from public health authorities and health-care workers to national security and ...

Varma is a physician and epidemiologist who has led public health programs, emergency response, and outbreak investigations in Asia, Africa, and the United States. On the long list of ways that ...

NEW YORK -- Public health officials have developed an odd interest lately in the mundane and arcane. Epidemiologists are tracking orange juice sales at the local Safeway and poring over school ...

Missouri schools are no more prepared to respond to pandemics, natural disasters, and bioterrorism attacks than they were in 2011, according to a study published in the October issue of the American ...

Terrorism is a serious threat to the security of the United States and indeed the world. The vulnerability of societies to terrorist attacks results in part from the proliferation of chemical, ...

On the grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike any seen since biological weapons were banned 34 years ...

WASHINGTON -- The government began handing out more than $1 billion to states and cities Thursday to help prepare doctors, hospitals and health officials for a bioterrorist attack or other medical ...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Just 9% of Americans consider the United States extremely prepared to respond to a biological threat, while terrorism remains Americans’ leading national security concern, a ...