Biological Warfare

Lawmakers are putting more scrutiny on a new biological warfare detection system in the U.S. TOP STORIES Our Line of Biodefense If terrorists deployed airborne anthrax or other infectious agents in the U.S., could the federal government effectively detect …

In a table-top pandemic exercise at Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panel envision…

Insurance companies rely on the law of large numbers to help estimate the value and frequency of future claims they will pay to policyholders. When it works perfectly, insurance companies run a stable business, consumers pay a fair and accurate premium, and t…

Skip to comments. Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to Chinabeta.canada.com ^ | 8/8/19 | Tom Blackwell Posted on 08/08/2019 3:24:15 PM PDT by ransomnote In a table-top pandemicexerciseat Johns Hopkins University last ye…

In a table-top pandemic exerciseat Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panelenvision…

My father was wounded in action at Iwo Jima in Cushman's Pocket, where he took a Japanese rifle bullet through the chest as a 2nd Lt in command of 1st Platoon, E Co, 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marines Regiment. After recovering from his wounds, was given comman…

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Of what may come. Of each other. If movies and television in the last few years are any indication, we have so much more to fear in this world than losing a job or a relationship or our health. Our entertainment is telling us that …

In a table-top pandemic exercise at Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panel envision…

By Daisy Luther We may not have to wait for a traveler from the Democratic Republic of Congo to visit the United States for an Ebola outbreak. It just might be brought to us by our own military along with the plague and other horrifying germs. The laborator…

The US government has shut down all research at the nation’s top biological warfare lab amid fears deadly microbes could leak into the water supply. Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) and r…