• Prevention strategies, targeted preparation and medical response toward the disease agents with the greatest potential for bioterrorism (Anthrax, tularemia, plague, smallpox, botulism toxins, and viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola) must be developed. (medicosecuador.com)
  • The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is possibly recorded in Hittite texts of 1500-1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic. (wikipedia.org)
  • These "genetic bombs," the report warns, could contain specially developed bubonic plague or anthrax strains that only affect certain types of people with specific genetic makeups. (newstarget.com)
  • They also developed a plague biological weapon by breeding fleas fed on plague-infected rats, and releasing millions of fleas in aerial attacks on Chinese cities. (medscape.com)
  • The biological attacks with powders containing Bacillus anthracis sent through the mail during September and October 2001 led to unprecedented public health and law enforcement investigations, which involved thousands of investigators from federal, state, and local agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • Following recognition of the first cases of anthrax in Florida in early October 2001, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion (CDC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were mobilized to assist investigators from state and local public health and law enforcement agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC and FBI during the investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks and highlight the challenges and suc- cesses of public health and law enforcement collaborations in general. (cdc.gov)
  • At least one of the anthrax mailings came from overseas (from the text below: "In November 2001, the CDC's web site in Atlanta confirmed that a tainted letter had been sent from Switzerland to Chile , so neither of the key suspects could have possibly acted alone. (blogspot.com)
  • M-Cam has also monitored biological and chemical weapons treaty violations on behalf of the U.S. government, following the anthrax scare in September 2001. (ordercialisjlp.com)
  • This platform technology could be utilised not only against inhalation anthrax but also against other microbes. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • In September 1999 - as the Jerry Hauer-SAIC-Fort Detrick-USAMRIID West Nile Virus was taking hold in New York - the terrorist began working at the very same lab. (blogspot.com)
  • While we are not concerned with the hemorrhagic fevers, our concern rests in the fact that ISI was given a supply of anthrax from Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, and the technology to manufacture and aerosolize it into a deployable weapon, by the CIA under the administration of George H. W. Bush, a former Director of that entity. (tbrnews.org)
  • Although public health and criminal investigations have been conducted in concert in the past, the response to the anthrax attacks required close collabora- tion because of the immediate and ongoing threat to public safety. (cdc.gov)
  • Unlike the history of conventional weapons and terrorism, the history of biological warfare is confounded by several factors including 1) difficulties confirming allegations of biological attacks 2) lack of reliable microbiological and epidemiological data 3) the use of allegations of biological attack for propaganda and 4) secrecy surrounding biological weapons program. (medicosecuador.com)
  • 5 It is clear that significant efforts and skills are needed to carry out large scale biological terrorist attacks. (medicosecuador.com)
  • It is planned that this deployment would occur only in the event of an existing war between the countries, and not as one of the ongoing annual terrorist attacks sponsored by ISI, as the use of a biological weapon as a terrorist act would be clearly not accidental or within the capability of any of the numerous terrorist groups operating in Pakistan, and would inevitably provoke India to war. (tbrnews.org)
  • As a result, the majority of people in high occupancy buildings are unnecessarily vulnerable to both aerosolized biological attacks and naturally occurring biological threats. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • this increases occupants' vulnerability to biological attacks and also can increase vulnerability to naturally occurring threats when the air intake is near a potential contamination source. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • He experimented with biological responses to filoviridae, the family of viruses that transmit Ebola. (blogspot.com)
  • STETHOSCOPE informs us that the program has two components: (1) A study and development of hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg, and (2) Development and stockpiling of anthrax in aerosolized weapons form. (tbrnews.org)
  • Biological weapons include any organism or toxin found in nature that can be used to incapacitate, kill, or otherwise impede an adversary. (medscape.com)
  • Selected MDS systems were challenged with anthrax toxin. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • It is a spike protein instruction to make the human body produce a toxin, and that toxin has been scheduled as a known biologic agent of concern with respect to biological weapons for the last now decade and a half," he said. (ordercialisjlp.com)
  • Before the 20th century, biological warfare took three main forms: (1) deliberate poisoning of food and water with infectious or toxic material, (2) use of microorganisms or toxins in some form of weapon system, and (3) use of biologically inoculated fabrics. (medscape.com)
  • Biological warfare became more sophisticated against both animals and humans during the 20th century. (medscape.com)
  • During World War II, the Japanese operated a secret biological warfare research facility in Manchuria and carried out human experiments on Chinese prisoners. (medscape.com)
  • CounterPunch commented a month later on geographic connections that bore directly on the case: "The South African media [have] been abuzz with details of that nation's former biological warfare program and its links to the CIA. (blogspot.com)
  • It is long known and feared that the perfect weapon for mass destruction and hysteria is germ warfare or biological terrorism. (medicosecuador.com)
  • The use of bees as guided biological weapons was described in Byzantine written sources, such as Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise in the chapter On Naval Warfare. (wikipedia.org)
  • To demonstrate that effective protection against anthrax can be achieved by alternative needle-free vaccination, PolyMicrospheres developed and evaluated novel antigen-adjuvant delivery systems. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • An RPA vaccine has been developed and immunisation with this protein has offered significant protection against pulmonary anthrax. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • Building occupants face threats from numerous, naturally occurring biological contaminants that can be spread through the air, including viruses, bacteria, molds, toxins produced by bacteria/molds, and allergens such as pollen, pet dander, and pest droppings. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Today we also make clear that the United States will hold any state, terrorist group, or other non-state actor or individual fully accountable for supporting or enabling terrorist efforts to obtain or use weapons of mass destruction -- whether by facilitating, financing, or providing expertise or safe haven for such efforts," he said. (blogspot.com)
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  • Blinken suggests that it could be, for example, a terrorist attack in Russia itself, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a staged - or even actual - sabotage using chemical weapons. (thesaker.is)
  • And once Iraq has such a weapon, it could pass it on to its terrorist allies. (capitalismmagazine.com)
  • Given its long record of using terrorism against its own people as well as its neighbors, the United States can't afford to allow it to obtain the world's most dangerous weapons - particularly a nuclear bomb, which would be the ultimate terrorist weapon. (capitalismmagazine.com)
  • 2,47 According to the July 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate regarding the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland, al-Qa'ida "would not hesitate" to use biological weapons "if it develops what it deems is sufficient capability. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Attempts to use biological weapons date back to antiquity. (medscape.com)
  • There are numerous other instances of the use of plant toxins, venoms, and other poisonous substances to create biological weapons in antiquity. (wikipedia.org)
  • To allow the world's leading sponsor of terror to gain the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. (blogspot.com)
  • Oh, and btw- if WP is a chemical weapon, Saddam DID have a chemical weapons program and you can stop calling Bush a liar about WMD. (balloon-juice.com)
  • The only way to use it inappropriately would be to use it on civilians, and then it STILL WOULD NOT BE A CHEMICAL WEAPON. (balloon-juice.com)
  • No. WP is not a chemical weapon. (balloon-juice.com)
  • The debate about WP centres partly though not wholly on whether it is really a chemical weapon. (balloon-juice.com)
  • General Sada and others have described the contents of the summer 2002 airlift to have been drums-some yellow-with labels on them suggesting that they were filled with chemical weapon pre-cursors, and this is consistent with the binary nerve agents that Saddam had developed where two chemicals would be combined to make a WMD just prior to its use (sometimes even combined in the warhead immediately prior to employment). (floppingaces.net)
  • The German-American physician Anton Dilger established a secret biological laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent to grow the causative agents of anthrax and glanders. (medscape.com)
  • I am informed by Chief of Station that he is maintaining a humint asset codenamed STETHOSCOPE within the Pakistani secret biological weapons program. (tbrnews.org)
  • Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies. (feedreader.com)
  • Together with ultrasound and microwave weapons, there are also "psychotronic weapons" which, in addition to having the capability of "transfering information among people", are able to act on communication and electronic systems (1). (gopetition.com)
  • Psychotronic weapon" listed in the Dennis J. Kucinich's bill is described as a weapon using "torsion fields" radiation in the book "Psychotronic Weapon and the Security of Russia" (6) by Russian scientist Vladimir Tsygankov and Vladimir Lopatin (a politician, who worked on Committees on Security in Russian Federal Republic, State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Union of Independent States). (gopetition.com)
  • We cannot allow the Iranian regime to use negotiations to stall for time, hedge its bets and keep open an indigenous route to a nuclear weapon ," said US national security adviser Stephen Hadley. (blogspot.com)
  • For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon . (blogspot.com)
  • If Iraq can obtain the necessary fissile material, it could build a nuclear weapon within a year. (capitalismmagazine.com)
  • The White House warned Wednesday that Iran must not be allowed to use negotiations over its nuclear program to "stall" the world while Tehran pursues what the West fears is an atomic weapons quest. (blogspot.com)
  • It would be a conventional weapon used on civilians, which is bad, but no worse than lining civilians up against a wall and machine-gunning them to death. (balloon-juice.com)
  • A covert biological attack on U.S. civilians could potentially cause tens of thousands of casualties and immense social and economic disruption. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • If on the other hand the toxic properties of white phosphorus, the caustic properties, are specifically intended to be used as a weapon, that of course is prohibited, because the way the Convention is structured or the way it is in fact applied, any chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons. (balloon-juice.com)
  • The incubation period of inhalational anthrax among humans is unclear, but it is reported to range from 1 to 7 days, possibly ranging up to 60 days. (tripod.com)
  • S Mohan Mohanraj and Meier Kende discuss development of a viable intranasal microsphere-based delivery system and how it delivers a recombinant anthrax vaccine via two-dose immunisation. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • The objective was to develop microsphere-based delivery systems (MDS) for controlled and pulsed-release delivery of recombinant anthrax vaccine via intranasal immunisation. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • Daszak, who Martin refers to as "the money launderer in chief," "actually stated that this entire exercise was a campaign of domestic terror to get the public to accept the universal vaccine platform using a known biological weapon. (ordercialisjlp.com)
  • POWELL: My second purpose today is to provide you with additional information, to share with you what the United States knows about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as well as Iraq's involvement in terrorism, which is also the subject of Resolution 1441 and other earlier resolutions. (archives.gov)
  • The CWC is monitored by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague. (balloon-juice.com)
  • This was the first multilateral agreement that extended prohibition of chemical agents to biological agents. (medscape.com)
  • Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the Pentagon's secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. (feedreader.com)
  • In the overt attack, usually law enforcement first sion of dangerous biological agents to prove they have the detects the event, leads the initial response, and notifies public material for legitimate purposes. (cdc.gov)
  • The use of biological agents is not a new concept, and history is replete with examples of biological weapons use. (medscape.com)
  • A line source technique is the most effective dispersal means for biological agents. (medscape.com)
  • Small packages or envelopes may contain biological agents, but unless they also contain a dispersal device, they are not likely to pose an inhalational threat. (medscape.com)
  • 6-13 The health effects associated with naturally occurring indoor biological air pollutants include disease, toxicoses, and hypersensitivity (i.e., allergic) diseases. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Potential rivals, such as China are anxious to exploit those transformational technologies broadly, while adversaries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons …the effects of information and other advanced technologies promise to revolutionize the nature of conventional armed forces" (ref. 13, pg. (gopetition.com)
  • David Goldstein, who studies population genetics at University College London (now known as London's Global University), says that creating a weapon that targets one ethnic group but not another "is just not going to happen. (newstarget.com)
  • 1. At least part of the aerosol project has been dubbed Operation Cloverleaf,7 probably due to its multi-faceted operations, which include: weather modification, military communications, space weapons development, ozone and global warming research plus biological weaponry and detection testing.2. (feedreader.com)
  • Iraq is suspected of retaining huge stocks of anthrax, nerve gas, and other chemical and biological poisons, as well as a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. (capitalismmagazine.com)
  • Among these weapons, anthrax has become the most prominent threat. (ondrugdelivery.com)
  • In September 1999, I said here at the Citadel that America was entering a period of consequences that would be defined by the threat of terror, and that we faced a challenge of military transformation. (archives.gov)
  • In March 2022, Martin filed a federal lawsuit against President Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alleging that COVID-19 shots turn the body into a biological weapons factory, manufacturing spike protein. (ordercialisjlp.com)
  • And yes, if you assert that our troops used 'chemical weapons' on people, you are smearing the troops. (balloon-juice.com)
  • The West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 made 67 people in New York City ill, and brought with it endemic anxiety. (blogspot.com)
  • [12] In South Sudan, the people of the Koalit Hills kept their country free of Arab invasions by using tsetse flies as a weapon of war. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States has made clear for many years that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our people, our forces, and our friends and allies," he said. (blogspot.com)
  • And what I'll do is I'll take you on a very short journey through the patent landscape to make sure people understand what happened, but as you know, up until 1999, the topic of coronavirus vis-a-vis the patenting activity around coronavirus was uniquely applied to veterinary science. (sca.news)
  • According to the same newspaper Segodnya in March 1998, the matter was discussed with U.N. secretary general Kofi Anan, and included on the agenda of the General Assembly of the U.N. Most probably the USA vetoed this proposal and in consequence, the ban of informational weapons was not discussed by the United Nations General Assembly. (gopetition.com)
  • Most commercial buildings are not configured and maintained in ways that effectively reduce occupants' risk of exposure to biological threats. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • 6-13 In addition, exposure to indoor biological air pollutants has been associated with "sick building syndrome," a set of non-specific symptoms that may include upper-respiratory irritative symptoms, headaches, fatigue, and rash, and "appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Genome data in public databases revealed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of target sequences for ethnic specific weapons do exist," the Sunshine Project found. (newstarget.com)
  • It appears that ethnic specific biological weapons may indeed become possible in the near future. (newstarget.com)
  • Instead of triggering the specific toxic effects of organisms such as anthrax, advanced genetic bioweapons instead use RNA interference to shut down vital genes. (newstarget.com)
  • The Clinton administration chose to use military force in Bosnia in 1995 and in Kosovo in 1999 without obtaining a specific resolution from the Security Council. (capitalismmagazine.com)
  • Entitled "Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II," the report warns that advancements in human genome technology combined with the development of vectors capable of disrupting genes and introducing harmful material into cells has deeply concerning implications for the future of humanity. (newstarget.com)
  • In reaction, the Russian State Duma and consequently , the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Union of Independent States addressed the United Nations, OBSE and the European Council with a proposal for an international convention banning the development and use of informational weapons. (gopetition.com)
  • While no SCUD missiles were found, it seems very likely that these large weapons might have actually been made and either moved by ship or military transport. (floppingaces.net)
  • The purpose of that resolution was to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. (archives.gov)
  • Rather than invading our beaches or launching bombers, adversaries may … deploy compact and relatively cheap weapons of mass destruction-not just nuclear, but also chemical or biological, to use disease as a weapon of war. (medscape.com)
  • Underneath the article, Segodnya published a review of weapons affecting human psyche which it obtained from the Russian Department of Defense. (gopetition.com)
  • As a matter of fact, we found records in the patent records of sequences attributed to novelty, going to patents that were sought as early as 1999. (sca.news)
  • BWs are devices composed of 4 major components as follows: payload (biological agent), munition (container that keeps the payload intact and virulent during delivery), delivery system (eg, missile, artillery shell, aircraft), and a dispersal mechanism. (medscape.com)
  • Bartlett was the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • Interestingly, the BMA's "Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity I" report, which was released back in 1999, completely dismissed all of this as impossible. (newstarget.com)