Biological Warfare

CDC You Later At the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), scientists study some of the most dangerous pathogens on Earth from Ebola to the plague in an effort to prepare the nation for the possibility of biological warfare.…

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…

Skip to comments. How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History Smithsonian ^ | August 5, 2019 | Emily Toomey Posted on 08/06/2019 6:48:56 AM PDT by C19fan Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought t…

Americas main biological warfare lab has been ordered to stop all research into the deadliest viruses and pathogens over fears contaminated waste could leak out of the facility. Fort Detrick, in Maryland, has been the epicentre of the US Armys bioweapons res…

Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought to have perished at the hands of a creature no bigger than a fingernail: the mosquito. In his new book The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, historian Timot…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin "Drones are becoming more and more powerful and smarter," EU Security Commissioner Julian King warned this weekend, "which makes them m…

Cyberpunk 2077 is set in the same alternate Earth as a tabletop RPG that first saw print in 1988. That first edition of Cyberpunk was set in the dark future of 2013, but its definitive follow-up Cyberpunk 2020 jumped ahead seven years. After a couple of false…

Bioweapons, specifically Lyme Disease and bioweaponized ticks, were in the news recently when US Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) introduced Amendment 116-19 which was subsequently passed by the US House of Congress on July 11th, 2019. The US House orde…

The only person you’re truly competing against is yourself. Wise words from a starship captain that CBS All-Access should consider. Looking at the big show they put on at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, as well as the news that continues to unfold out of Sta…

If we were rational creatures, we would fear our back yards more than our beaches. Though oceans contain real-life monsters like the great white, our lawns and parks are home to humankinds deadliest foe: the ubiquitous mosquito. Harvester of human populatio…