Anthrax


Researchers Seek to Counteract Bioengineered Anthrax -- Chris Schneidmiller  -- Global Security Newswire  -- September 5, 2006
Biological Warfare

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 Concerned About U.S. Vulnerability to Anthrax Attacks -- Judith Miller  -- New York Times  -- December 28, 2003
Biological Warfare

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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Aids cash goes to US bio-defence -- Richard Black  -- BBC News  -- July 10, 2003
Biological Warfare

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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Anthrax attack could kill 123,000 -- Staff  -- BBC News  -- March 18, 2003
Biological Warfare

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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New Anthrax Cure Could End Resistant Biowar Threat -- Peter Graff  -- Reuters  -- August 21, 2002
Biological Warfare

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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Early statistical detection of anthrax outbreaks by tracking over-the-counter medication sales -- Anna Goldenberg, Galit Shmueli,, Richard A. Caruana, and Stephen E. Fienberg  -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  -- April 16, 2002
Biological Warfare

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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Software finds possible anthrax cures -- Staff  -- MSNBC News  -- March 8, 2002
Biological Warfare

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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Aiming a World of Computers at Anthrax -- Larry Hand  -- The Scientist  -- February 4, 2002
Metacomputing

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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PCs tapped to help fight anthrax -- Staff  -- CNN  -- January 22, 2002
Metacomputing

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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U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax in a Highly Lethal Powder Form -- William J. Broad and Judith Miller  -- New York Times  -- December 13, 2001
Biological Warfare

As the investigation into the anthrax attacks widens to include federal laboratories and contractors, government officials have acknowledged that Army scientists in recent years have made anthrax in a powdered form that could be used as a weapon.

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