New York Presses To Deploy More Bioweapons Sensors
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NEW YORK -- City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation's newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan.
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Washington state health officials are making encouraging progress in bioterrorism preparedness. According to a recent report from the nonprofit Trust for America&#39;s health, our state has met six out of 10 criteria for bioterrorism preparedness.
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States have made some improvements in bioterrorism preparedness since 2001, but most remain &quot;woefully unprepared&quot; to respond to a bioterrorist attack or public health emergency, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Trust for America&#39;s Health.
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NEW YORK -- The mayor of New York City on Wednesday became the latest state or local official to take direct action to address the flu vaccine shortage by ordering vaccine directly from European wholesalers.
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The mayor of New York City on Wednesday became the latest state or local official to take direct action to address the flu vaccine shortage by ordering vaccine directly from European wholesalers.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday passed a bill to improve U.S. preparedness for bioterrorism or other health crises, in part by accelerating development of new vaccines and drugs.
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Scrambling to ease a vaccine crunch, New York City joined other jurisdictions ordering vaccine from Europe, putting pressure on the Bush administration to authorize the shipments.
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New York police intensified patrols of tourist sites, parking garages and the transit system on Friday after explosives experts in London defused a potentially devastating car bomb in the heart of the city.
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BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., yesterday dedicated a 150,000-square-foot facility in Frederick that is designed to produce 100 million anthrax vaccine doses when it becomes fully operational in two years.
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By Stephen Speckman Deseret Morning News  Citing a worldwide threat to the security of the United States from hostile nations, the Army wants to renovate Dugway Proving Ground's old Baker Laboratory to increase defense testing against biological agents.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- States are slowly getting better prepared to handle bioterrorism, but most still don&#39;t have statewide response plans and federal funding is declining, according to a new report.
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Teams of police officers equipped with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs have become a part of the landscape of post-Sept. 11 New York, patrolling around Wall Street and such landmarks as the Empire State building.
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NEW YORK -- A New York City Police Department helicopter with an ultra-sensitive radiation detector affixed to its tail whipped through a wintry sky over Lower Manhattan last month, hunting block by block through the concrete canyons of Wall Street for a black SUV containing the components of a h...
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Onondaga County will hold three public flu clinics over the next month. The announcement comes after they received 2,100 more doses of the flu vaccine from the New York State Department of Health.
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By Austin Fenner, Daily News, New York  Sep. 19--New York City's drinking water supply is being guarded  around-the-clock against toxic and biological weapons by an unlikely band of  sentinels -- the hardy bluegill fish.
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New York City increased its transit security Tuesday, sending hundreds of additional officers to patrol subways and conduct random bag searches following deadly bombings on a busy commuter rail system in India.
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New rules announced yesterday will make it easier to investigate a bioterror attack on the US food supply, though they won&#39;t change the underlying