Anthrax
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Researchers from Canada and the United States have developed a drug that could someday be used to treat people exposed to anthrax bacteria specifically engineered to overcome antibiotics.
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U.S. officials say they have fresh concerns about the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attacks because they now recognize that anthrax spores could be more widely dispersed than previously believed.
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Experts have said that the Bush administration?s plans for increased biological defense research could take away necessary funding from other medical research projects.
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An anthrax weapon aimed at a major city could kill at least 123,000 people even if every victim received treatment, experts have calculated.
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U.S. scientists have made a breakthrough which they believe could thwart one of the most nightmarish forms of terrorism -- an attack with antibiotic-resistant biological weapons.
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The authors propose that anthrax attacks could be detected in advance by analyzing grocery data for higher than normal incidences of consumers buying over-the-counter medication.
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Scientists using the power of more than a million home computers, all linked together and cranking along as one, say they have come up with thousands of possible compounds that could be developed as a cure for anthrax.
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A multiple-sponsor distributed computing project aims to derail anthrax's ability to enter human cells and eliminate the toxin as a terrorists' weapon.
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A coalition of scientists and technology companies is asking people around the world to use their computers' extra processing power to help search for a cure for anthrax.
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For nearly a decade, U.S. Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah have made small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax that is virtually identical to the powdery spores used in the mail attacks that have killed five people, government sources say.
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