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 ...

The emerging potential threats of bioterrorism combined with critical existing epidemics facing the United States call for immediate and urgent attention to the U.S. public health system. The ...

It usually isn’t news to report when something didn’t happen, but in this case, it is worth noting: 2013 ended and there still hasn’t been a terrorist attack on America using weapons of mass ...

Almost $2 million has been set-aside in budget legislation to establish a new bioterrorism research program at the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute in Pittsburgh.

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

Reporting from Washington — On its face, it’s just another Washington dispute about money. But a move by House Democrats to strip $2 billion from reserve funds for bioterrorism and pandemic flu — ...

Reporting from Washington — A move in Congress to cut up to $2 billion from bioterrorism prevention “will drive a stake through the heart of America’s fledgling biodefense efforts,” former Sen. Bob ...

Any day now, a patient infected with smallpox could walk into a busy emergency room. The patient would have a rash with a sore throat and a mild fever. Common enough symptoms. The only thing ...

Since the horrific events of Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a war on terrorists who threaten our way of life. Unfortunately, the weapons of terrorism are not limited to hijacked ...

Ensuring effective bioterrorism prevention, planning, and response is a national priority that requires the timely exchange of identifiable health information and adequate protections of individual ...