Although the anthrax attacks of 2001 did not cause catastrophic morbidity or mortality—5 people died and more than 20 were infected—those incidents resulted in considerable disruption. They had ...

These are nasty, and a great part of the training for these eventualities involved just surviving them. And of the three, ...

Biological weapons spread infectious agents or toxins to kill humans, animals or plants or contaminate a country’s food and/or water supply. They can be deadly and highly dangerous and spread beyond a ...

The exercise focused on the hospital’s ability to identify and treat large numbers of patients exposed to a biological threat, while coordinating between medical teams, emergency services and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The White House is working to strengthen safeguards against biological attacks after staffing cuts early in the second Trump ...

The United States is under biological attack from a genetically modified plague. There is chaos in the streets, bloody corpses strewn on sidewalks, people killing neighbors they believe have the ...

On the Tuesday, July 28, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Investigative journalist and best-selling author Annie Jacobsen joins USA TODAY's The Excerpt to discuss her new book, “Biological War: A ...

Biological weapons are no longer a Cold War relic, and they cannot be treated only as a public health preparedness problem. “A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrance,” a recent National Defense ...

On 9-12 December, the Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Use of Weapons of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) delivered a train-the-trainer course on basic and intermediate ...

Dose–response analysis for microorganisms and for chemicals differs substantially in several ways. First, illness can result from the exposure to low numbers (up to tens or hundreds) of microorganisms ...