Call for New 'Manhattan Project' to Fight Bioterror
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The world needs an effort similar to that behind the creation of the atomic bomb to tackle the multi-faceted threat of biowarfare, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Cheap, reliable atom bombs strangely unpopular The US Congress has decided not to fund development of new nuclear warheads until a firm US nuclear-weapons roadmap is in place.â¦
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Oregon researchers have started work on a new five-year, &#36;10.3 million biodefense contract to find the proteins associated with bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the virus that causes monkeypox.
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A newly revealed summit of terrorists raises fears of a fresh plan to attack the U.S. This bombmaker and pilot could be a key player
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The devastating impact of a terrorist attack in Britain using bioweapons or radioactivity could be further amplified by the panicked reaction and &quot;alarmist media,&quot; a leading think-tank has warned.
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David Hose is a bioterrorism casualty. Little wonder, then, that his confidence in U.S. readiness for another such attack is about as low as his energy and as weak as his still-battered immune system, lingering after-effects of the anthrax he accidentally inhaled handling a letter addressed to Sen. Pat Leahy three years ago.
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Nuclear terrorism is a real threat which the world must take immediate action against in order to prevent a nuclear September 11-style outrage, according to the head of the UN's atomic energy agency.
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Leading infectious disease experts called on Wednesday for the separate stockpiling of additives, or adjuvants, to help boost the effectiveness of vaccines to fight the next flu pandemic.
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Part of imminent 'ambitious counter terrorism package' European Union Justice, Freedom (sic) &amp; Security Commissioner Franco Frattini yesterday turned up the volume on terror threats, ahead of the EU's adoption of "an ambitious counter terrorism package" next month. Terrorists, said Frattini, seek new technology, could deploy bioterrorism with devastating effect, and if they got hold of weapons of mass destruction "the consequences would be catastrophic."â¦
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A month after a new U.S. law  encouraging the development of medicines to counter  bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives  to make products that may never be used.
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As the IAEA meets, advocates of a nuclear-fuel bank argue that it would help safeguard against terrorism.
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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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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
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MOSCOW, Aug. 27 -- Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and former senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) launched a new effort Monday to expand the reach and strength of their program to secure nuclear, chemical and biological weapons at a time of deepening tensions between the United States and Russia.
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The proposed policy shift reignites a debate over whether such research will help or hinder defense against bioterrorism.
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Concerns over bio-terrorism are set to top agenda at international conference in Geneva on biological weapons.