Report Sounds Alarm Over Bioterror


Report Sounds Alarm Over Bioterror -- Joby Warrick  -- Washington Post  -- November 29, 2008
Biological Warfare

Seven years after the 2001 anthrax attacks, a congressionally ordered study finds a growing threat of biological terrorism and calls for aggressive defenses on par with those used to prevent a terrorist nuclear detonation. Due for release next week, a draft of the study warns that future bioterrorists may use new technology to make synthetic versions of killers such as Ebola, or genetically modified germs designed to resist ordinary vaccines and antibiotics.

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