The front line in the war against anthrax bioterrorism may be in San Diego.
Those are the ultimate objectives of bioterrorism, not to hurt or maim but to disrupt society.
But fears of bioterrorism gave drug firms a new, and potentially lucrative, role in national defence.
But the White House is preoccupied by bioterrorism and mad-cow disease: and it wants to trim the budget deficit.
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That is important, said Curran, because fighting bioterrorism is at this point as much a matter of law enforcement as medicine.
At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack.
In this broader context, Cassell argues, the victims of bioterrorism provide an "indistinguishable" challenge to doctors and administrators working in public health.
Even when bioterrorism scenarios are considered, she claims, hospital leaders and public-health experts are frequently excluded from the training sponsored by federal agencies.
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He was fired last month from a position at Louisiana State University where he helped train emergency workers to respond to bioterrorism attacks.
U.S. equity markets closed mostly lower Thursday as national safety issues surrounding bioterrorism concerns and weak corporate results put pressure on blue-chip stock investors.
The National Institutes of Health have backed bioterrorism-related research for years.
He was fired in September from a position at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders in the case of a bioterrorism attack.
But Cohen said ricin was once known as "the poor man's bioterrorism" because the seeds are easy to obtain and the extraction process is relatively simple.
This is a sensationalised account of the threat from bioterrorism and not in keeping with the healthy scepticism you usually bring to bear on such matters.
Also in demand are plastic sheeting, duct tape and latex gloves, which people want to help seal off a room in their house in the event of bioterrorism.
They zeroed in on Mr. Preston because of his science writing background, which included nonfiction books about astronomy, steel and viruses, as well as a novel about bioterrorism.
But scientists and government officials have learned a lot since that first round of bioterrorism, which should at least make this bout of anthrax a little less terrifying.
The scientists at the CDC and in Russia give the same answer: more research is needed to develop better vaccines, to protect us from a bioterrorism attack.
This month, the bioterrorism suits ordered by the NHS were found to be leaky, forcing some staff to fix them with tape while the government ordered new suits.
Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) is hoping the concern about bioterrorism will help spur creating a new, single agency to ensure everything Americans eat is held to the same safety standards.
One anti-sceptic is Donald Henderson, director of the Centre for Civilian Biodefence Studies at Johns Hopkins University, who believes that the threat of bioterrorism has increased in recent years.
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In order to confront the bioterrorism threat, Daschle said the nation's supply of antibiotics and vaccines should be increased and the government response to possible attacks should be better coordinated.
Professor John Oxford, a virologist at Queen Mary University of London, believes the bioterrorism threat is "a load of old tosh" but still argues in favour of keeping the virus.
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While the attacks were the result of hijacked airliners, speculation abounded that the suspected terrorists also considered bioterrorism -- the unleashing of deadly toxins or diseases on an unsuspecting U.S. public.
The U.S. government's Bioterrorism Act of 2002 allows such medicines to be approved after they have been shown to be effective in two different kinds of animals and safe in humans.
The relative difficulties of using agents of biological warfare effectively and the ease and effectiveness of alternatives (especially plain, old-fashioned explosives) argue against a massive expenditure of resources to counter bioterrorism.
Earlier, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told CNN that investigators were treating the anthrax incident in Florida as a criminal matter but were not prepared to label it a bioterrorism attack.
This is for monitoring and protecting municipalities from bioterrorism.
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But Cassell made another point about bioterrorism: Except for the fact that there is an evil human being working in the background, bioterrorist attacks are not much different from other disease outbreaks.
Speaking first-hand about the anthrax scare, the South Dakota Democrat noted that he had addressed the need for greater protections against bioterrorism before a letter with anthrax arrived at his office earlier this month.
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