• Both DFA assays tested positive on 14 of 26 aging clinical speci- mens from the 2001 anthrax outbreak investigation. (cdc.gov)
  • fully to detect B. anthracis directly in clinical specimens from Earlier studies demonstrated the advantages of immunoflu- several patients with laboratory-confirmed inhalational orescence assays, based on polyclonal antibodies to B. anthra- anthrax during the 2001 bioterrorism-associated anthrax out- cis cell-surface antigens, for identifying B. anthracis isolates break in the United States (6,17). (cdc.gov)
  • bioterrorism-associated anthrax outbreak from October 5 to and U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, December 21, 2001, were included. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • The 2001 anthrax mailings killed five, injured members of the media, shut down the Capitol, threw the U.S. postal service into turmoil, and sent Americans looking for Cipro prescriptions in anticipation of the next dispersal. (city-journal.org)
  • Dark Winter, a 2001 simulation exercise by the federal government, gamed out what would happen in a smallpox outbreak for which the nation was unprepared. (city-journal.org)
  • 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)
  • Carus (2001) has identified a number of confirmed uses of biological agents in the conduct of criminal or terrorist acts. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Placing anthrax spores in postal envelopes killed five people and sickened 17 in fall 2001 and created a panic in places like Washington. (marlerclark.com)
  • In August 2001, members of the US Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force participated in an exercise with members of the New York City Fire Department, during which the Fire Department's response to the 1993 WTC bombing was discussed. (visibility911.org)
  • Also on September 8, 2001, an exercise was held at Inova Fairfax Hospital, just outside Washington, DC, based around the scenario of a terrorist attack with a chemical weapon. (visibility911.org)
  • While many involved materials not on the select agent list, several did involve the use of select agents and toxins, including Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), ricin toxin, Yersinia pestis (plague), botulinum toxin, and Burkholderia mallei (glanders)-which cause disease in both animals and humans. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Anthrax ( Greek Άνθραξ for coal ) is an acute infectious disease in humans and animals that is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and is highly lethal in some forms. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax , caused by Bacillus anthracis , is thought to have originated in Egypt around 1250 BC. (wikidoc.org)
  • I have been ruminating on how a CDC-sponsored package of legislation (which began as the "Model Emergency Health Powers Act" in 1999 or 2000, crafted by public health law professor Lawrence O Gostin) became the framework for a takeover of democratic government and a march to totalitarianism. (blogspot.com)
  • I think it's important for your listeners and viewers to remember that it was 1999 when Anthony Fauci and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill decided to start weaponizing coronavirus they patented in 2002 - and you heard that date correctly, that's a year before the SARS outbreak in China. (ordercialisjlp.com)
  • We know that the manipulation of the coronavirus began with [University of North Carolina Professor of Microbiology and Immunology] Ralph Baric in 1999. (forbiddenknowledgetv.net)
  • Smallpox was used as a biological weapon during the French and Indian Wars, (1754 to 1767) , and in the 1980s, was developed into an aerosol biological weapon by the Soviet Union. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Joint Commission accreditation was the most academic health centers were consistent factor associated with providing training for all nine exposures studied specifically mentioned as being (smallpox, anthrax, chemical and radiological exposures, botulism, plague, appropriate for program funding in the tularemia, viral encephalitis, and hemorrhagic fever). (cdc.gov)
  • Anthrax is one of only a few bacteria that can form long lived spores . (wikidoc.org)
  • When breathing , ingesting or getting anthrax spores in a cut in the skin , these spores reactivate themselves and multiply in their new host very rapidly. (wikidoc.org)
  • The anthrax spores in the soil are very tough, can live many decades and are known to occur on all continents except Antarctica. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic grass eating mammals (ruminants) who ingest or breathe in the spores while eating grass. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax can also infect humans when they are exposed to dead infected animals, eat tissue from infected animals, or are exposed to a high density of anthrax spores from an animal's fur, hide, or wool. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax spores can be grown outside the body and used as a biological weapon. (wikidoc.org)
  • but anthrax spores can be transported by human clothing, shoes, among others. (wikidoc.org)
  • If a person dies of anthrax their body can be a very dangerous source of anthrax spores . (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax spores must be aerosolized in order to cause inhalational anthrax. (tripod.com)
  • Anthrax also stays viable for decades, meaning the spores won't fade away with time and disinfectant. (stanford.edu)
  • 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)
  • He experimented with biological responses to filoviridae, the family of viruses that transmit Ebola. (blogspot.com)
  • Ebola, Marburg, Junin, Rift Valley fever, and yellow fever viruses have been deemed to pose a particularly serious threat, and in 1999 the HFVs were classified as category A bioweapons agents by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • At least one political thriller a year manages to introduce it as a biological weapon (though most writers have gone over to the more media attracting Ebola virus). (strategypage.com)
  • UNITED NATIONS: With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is "no early end in sight" to the severe health crisis and called for "extraordinary measures" to stop the transmission of the disease. (blogspot.com)
  • The worst (and last) outbreak of pneumonic plague occurred in the United States occurred in Los Angeles in 1924. (strategypage.com)
  • The size of the resulting outbreak of pneumonic plague would depend on several factors, including quantity of biological agent used, characteristics of the strain, method of aerosolization, and environmental conditions in the location of release (wind would spread the bacteria further, and crowding and high humidity increase the rate of infection). (strategypage.com)
  • Epidemiological features of pneumonic plague outbreak in Himachal Pradesh, India. (medscape.com)
  • Outbreak of Human Pneumonic Plague with Dog-to-Human and Possible Human-to-Human Transmission - Colorado, June-July 2014. (medscape.com)
  • It provides insight into the severity of the threat posed by the proliferation of biological weapons, and it allows one to estimate the effectiveness of different defensive responses (and hence the priority one should assign to each). (nationalacademies.org)
  • 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)
  • Biological attacks are disease outbreaks on steroids, requiring a speed and scope of response much greater than typically needed for natural infectious-disease events-or conventional terror. (city-journal.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A major exercise called CitySafe, based around the scenario of a bioterrorist attack involving anthrax, was set to take place in September 1999-possibly on September 11-but was canceled due to an outbreak of West Nile virus in the city. (visibility911.org)
  • Because of its high mortality (approximately 200 million deaths throughout history), Ysernia pestis has been a popular subject for study as a possible biological warfare (BW) agent. (strategypage.com)
  • The zone of anthrax-caused livestock mortality paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak. (lookformedical.com)
  • B. anthracis was developed by several countries as part of their biological weapons (BW) programs, and autonomous groups have also demonstrated the intent to use the bacterium in acts of terrorism. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • The causative agent of anthrax is B. anthracis , a nonmotile , Gram-positive , aerobic or facultatively anaerobic , endospore -forming, rod -shaped bacterium . (wikidoc.org)
  • Biological warfare became more sophisticated against both animals and humans during the 20th century. (medscape.com)
  • However, the 2003 emergence of the severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus (SARS-CoV) demonstrated that CoVs are also capable of causing outbreaks of severe infections in humans. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • While these bacteria are not usually fatal, they can be used for their resistance to antibiotics and cross-bred with other strains of related bacteria and used as a biological base element for the development of new strains of bacteria able to affect humans. (pastorlindstedt.org)
  • The first commercial vaccine to prevent anthrax in humans was created in 1950s. (wikidoc.org)
  • 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)
  • Softpedia News - 'As the Western Pacific Regional meeting of the World Health Organization started today in Noumea, public health officials from more than 20 countries gathered to discuss ways to prevent a possible deadly outbreak of bird flu in humans and contain some other possible large epidemics. (biblesearchers.com)
  • Ranked as one of the most hazardous compounds (worst 10%) to humans and "reasonably expected to be a human carcinogen" (International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC, 1999). (vaccineresistancemovement.org)
  • and the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. (huffpost.com)
  • MSEHPA is now 'track(ing) legal responses to the emerging international response to the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, including declarations of public health emergency at the international, national, state, and local levels. (indymedia.org)
  • 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)
  • Throughout the Soviet era, the AP system worked effectively, preventing major epidemics from decimating Soviet citizens in regions where diseases such as anthrax, brucellosis, bubonic plague, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and tularemia are endemic, and protecting economically important animals and crops from infectious diseases. (nti.org)
  • The fleas were then packed into bombs and dropped over populated areas of Manchuria, causing several plague outbreaks. (strategypage.com)
  • By the time the US offensive program was ended in 1970, the US did not have enough plague to make an effective weapon. (strategypage.com)
  • The possibility of rapid death combined with potential person-to-person transmission (in contrast to anthrax) makes plague an ominous BW threat. (strategypage.com)
  • There is little published information indicating the actions of autonomous groups or independent people seeking to develop plague as a weapon. (strategypage.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)
  • Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl Nass, M.D. (blogspot.com)
  • This blog began in 2007, focusing on anthrax vaccine, and later expanded to other public health and political issues. (blogspot.com)
  • In 1881, Louis Pasteur worked to create a vaccine for anthrax , which he was able to test with success in animals. (wikidoc.org)
  • The word anthrax is the Greek word for coal , the germ's name is derived from anthrakitis , the Greek word for anthracite , in reference to the black skin lesions victims develop in a cutaneous skin infection . (wikidoc.org)
  • About 20% of untreated cases of cutaneous anthrax will result in death. (tripod.com)
  • Would you recognize cutaneous anthrax? (tripod.com)
  • A lesion, resembling a cutaneous anthrax lesion, may be seen in the oral cavity on the posterior wall, the hard palate or the tonsils. (tripod.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)
  • Appreciate that any patient with foodborne illness may ing suspicious symptoms, disease clusters, and etiologic agents, represent the sentinel case of a more widespread outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • Some HFVs are considered to be a significant threat for use as biological weapons due to their potential for causing widespread illness and death. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • 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)
  • And those million patents were the first time human innovation had been put into an electronic, digital, searchable format…In 1999, patents on coronavirus started showing up. (forbiddenknowledgetv.net)
  • And that was the coronavirus [SARS-CoV-1] outbreak that happened in Asia. (forbiddenknowledgetv.net)
  • The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use. (wikipedia.org)
  • The treaty's full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • VEREX: Created in September 1991 during the Third Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), VEREX was tasked with identifying measures that could be used to determine whether a state party to the BTWC is 'developing, producing, stockpiling, acquiring, or retaining' biological weapons (BW). (nti.org)
  • For that, a Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction was created and later ratified in April of 1972, with more than 100 nations signing it, including Iraq, the United States, and the Soviet Union. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax is a very serious bioterrorism threat. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Furthermore, the chance of weaponised biological agents being used in conventional warfare or otherwise remains a very real, albeit often veiled, threat. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Two examples of this are the 1999 US National Intelligence Estimate on the global threat of infectious disease to the United States, and the January 2000 meeting of the UN Security Council on HIV/AIDS. (aber.ac.uk)
  • Between 1999 and 2012, extreme heat caused more than 7,400 heat-related deaths in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2009, a National Security Council assessment put potential deaths from an anthrax attack in the "hundreds of thousands," and the economic cost at more than $1 trillion. (city-journal.org)
  • When it was first established in 1999, the Strategic National Stockpile, a store of essential supplies and medications, was an afterthought. (huffpost.com)
  • Just over a year later, the stockpile delivered post-exposure prophylaxis to hundreds of postal workers who had been exposed to anthrax. (huffpost.com)
  • Unlike nuclear weapons, which required the thinking of great scientists such as Fermi, Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr and Teller to define the theoretical parameters and the work of gifted engineers to harness that technology, bacteria and viruses have been with us always. (pastorlindstedt.org)
  • The West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 made 67 people in New York City ill, and brought with it endemic anxiety. (blogspot.com)
  • Our climate is changing rapidly, and with this change, we are seeing emerging and re-emergiing diseases not endemic to the particular areas of outbreak. (blogspot.com)
  • They could probably operate for some days until the outbreaks began all over India, at which time they would be discovered, or might even have fallen sick themselves. (tbrnews.org)
  • In 2015, researchers found just 56,300 ventilators ready to be deployed in a respiratory disease outbreak. (huffpost.com)
  • 1999). In the case of some respiratory pathogens, 90% or more of the persons infected will become ill (Belshe, 1991). (scienceopen.com)
  • You remember the anthrax scare - suspicious white powder showing up in the mail. (stanford.edu)
  • Rapid diagnosis played an important role immunoglobulin (Ig) M antibody EAII-6G6-2-3 against the during the outbreak and aided in implementing appropriate cell wall polysaccharide antigen (CW) (12) and the mono- public health measures in a timely manner. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • Due to its high infectivity to cause tularemia, relative ease of dissemination and prior stock as a biological weapon, F. tularensis subsp. (openmicrobiologyjournal.com)
  • Anthrax lesions at any site are characterized by lymphadenopathy , extensive edema , necrosis and confluent exudate containing macrophages and neutrophils . (wikidoc.org)
  • Some of these diseases spread quickly within ranks resulting in large outbreaks, and personnel deployed are also often immunologically naïve to otherwise uncommonly-encountered pathogens. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Even training during peacetime is affected by disease outbreaks, sometimes resulting in the unexpected suspension of military operations [ 10 ].Unlike civilian settings, the military may acquire emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases from a myriad of origins and these often spread more readily, posing unique challenges to their prevention and control. (biomedcentral.com)
  • At the same time, the frequency and extent of outbreaks in military settings provide opportunities to understand these diseases, and to develop new strategies (Figure 1 ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Terrorist activities, thefts from biological laboratories, or information received from police agencies may impart forewarning if provided in a timely, discrete manner to appropriate offices of the local healthcare network. (medscape.com)
  • 1 At the same time, enhanced understanding of these agents and the ability to prevent or mitigate their effects diminishes the potential impact of these agents, and thereby decreases their value as a potential terrorist weapon. (nationalacademies.org)
  • One of these involved the Greater New York chapter of the American Red Cross training to deal with a terrorist attack with a biological weapon. (visibility911.org)
  • We can never create a perfect system to safeguard against terrorist use of a biological agent. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Should a terrorist succeed in setting off a nuclear weapon, how should people react? (stanford.edu)
  • And yet, despite these warnings - not to mention real-life influenza outbreaks in 2009, 2013 and 2017 - the gaps in America's pandemic response have never been filled. (huffpost.com)
  • A pandemic outbreak of it would dwarf all these other disaster scenarios, Wein says. (stanford.edu)
  • There are numerous other instances of the use of plant toxins, venoms, and other poisonous substances to create biological weapons in antiquity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other articles in the CBRNE section (see CBRNE - Biological Warfare Agents and CBRNE - Evaluation of a Biological Warfare Victim) discuss the specific clinical management issues involved with treatment of patients exposed to potential bioterrorism pathogens and toxins. (medscape.com)
  • This chapter proposes a set of guiding principles on how research with biological select agents and toxins (BSAT) should be viewed and conducted. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Nobody likes the idea of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles capable of delivering their lethal warheads. (cro.net)
  • Vremya MN' reported on 31 October that American policy toward Iraq is likely to be determined by whether laboratory scientists are able to link the current outbreak of anthrax to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. (rferl.org)
  • The aim of this review of published literature and reports is to assess the feasibility of monitoring sewage systems as an early warning system for the release of pathogens from an intentional, natural, or accidental biological contamination event. (scienceopen.com)
  • The only thing unusual about the CDC's recent anthrax and bird flu lab incidents, Ebright said, is that the public found out about them. (blogspot.com)
  • Nevertheless, these facilities possess unique collections of pathogenic bacterial, fungal, and viral strains and their staffs include scientists and technicians who are highly knowledgeable about the biological and epidemiological characteristics of some of the world's deadliest pathogens. (nti.org)
  • An epidemiological approach to monitoring sewer systems is especially relevant for an early warning of pathogens used as biological weapons. (scienceopen.com)
  • Although Iraq has been subjected to an unprecedented regimen of UN inspection and destruction of strategic military programs since the end of the Gulf War in the Spring of 1991, the international community has proven incapable of learning the entire scope of the Iraqi programs for fielding weapons of mass destruction, let alone eliminate these programs as mandated by the Security Council. (cro.net)
  • The BND thus concluded that it was "difficult to assess" the magnitude of the current Iraqi weapons program. (cro.net)
  • If an unintentional contamination of one food, such as clams, can affect 300,000 individuals, a concerted, deliberate attack on food could be devastating, especially if a more dangerous chemical, biological or radionuclear agent were used," according to the FDA's risk assessment. (marlerclark.com)
  • The bacterium was developed into an aerosol biological weapon by several countries in the past. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Most (about 95%) anthrax infections occur when the bacterium enters a cut of abrasion on the skin. (tripod.com)
  • In its final report of September 24, 1993, VEREX described and analyzed 21 such measures, including but not limited to declarations of biological agents, on-site inspections, and multilateral information sharing. (nti.org)
  • The review presents our conclusions on: (1) the potential biological agents that might be released into a sewage system, (2) the likely background level of those agents in sewage, (3) laboratory methods and detection, and (4) the probability of detecting select biological agents in sewage. (scienceopen.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)
  • In 1999, there were a million patents digitized by IBM. (forbiddenknowledgetv.net)
  • One of the earliest recorded uses of biological weapons dates back to the 6th century B.C., when Persian armies poisoned wells with a fungus. (cdc.gov)
  • related disease outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • Both have the potential to produce fatal disease and have been identified by the CDC as Category B biological agents. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • Given the frequency of food-borne disease - the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 1 in 4 Americans is sickened by food each year - anticipating a significant outbreak of food-borne illness in a year's time is akin to predicting the Pittsburgh Steelers will field a football team next season. (marlerclark.com)
  • In 1999, Q-fever became a notifiable disease in the United States but reporting is not required in many other countries. (dolfinin.com)
  • Dig up a shovel of soil, especially in areas which have had past outbreaks of a given disease, and one can easily with a little knowledge dig up and isolate for future use a few nasty little microbes. (pastorlindstedt.org)
  • Described as being a disease affecting horses, camels and sheep, anthrax had an impact on great civilizations, such as the Greek and Roman. (wikidoc.org)
  • Anthrax has also been used throughout history as a biologic weapon and there has been efforts to create and enforce legislation to avoid disastrous outbreaks of the disease. (wikidoc.org)
  • The Chicago Tylenol poisonings of 1982, for example, used cyanide, not a biological agent, but still killed seven people, panicked a nation, resulted in 32 million bottles of Tylenol getting pulled from the shelves, and changed product-safety packaging forever. (city-journal.org)
  • With or without advanced warning, the actual time and location of the release of a biological agent most likely will be covert. (medscape.com)
  • Blister agents, also known as vesicants, are a class of chemical weapon first used in combat during World War I. The prototypical and most common blister agent is sulfur mustard (SM) (bis-(2-chloroethyl) sulfide), known as mustard gas. (centerforhealthsecurity.org)
  • In the summer of 2000, top city officials attended an exercise based around the scenario of a biological warfare agent being released at a sporting event and came up with a plan for shutting down Manhattan during a crisis. (visibility911.org)
  • The use of biological agents is not a new concept, and history is replete with examples of biological weapons use. (medscape.com)
  • This was the first multilateral agreement that extended prohibition of chemical agents to biological agents. (medscape.com)
  • II POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN SEWAGE A wide variety of pathogenic organisms pass through municipal waste-water treatment systems. (scienceopen.com)
  • Successful treatment of patients exposed to many of the biological agents is exquisitely time dependent. (medscape.com)
  • This approach must consider the integration of multiple modes of management, risk analysis in the face of inherent uncertainties concerning what agents will be introduced, and potential interactions among multiple biological agents. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Because aerosols are a means for delivering chemical and biological agents, they can play an important role in weaponizing these substances. (nti.org)
  • If left untreated, anthrax in all forms can lead to septicemia and death. (tripod.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)
  • The BWC sought to supplement the Geneva Protocol and was negotiated in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva from 1969 to 1972, following the conclusion of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Abolition 2000: Founded in 1995 during the NPT Review and Extension Conference, Abolition 2000 is an international non-governmental global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework. (nti.org)
  • A U.S. initiative to outlaw nuclear weapons and to internationalize global stocks of fissile material for use in peaceful nuclear programs which became know as the Baruch Plan. (nti.org)
  • Wastewater presents a time dynamic collection point where many physical, chemical, and biological substances of our society are brought to a central location. (scienceopen.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)
  • Biological warfare is the poor-man's or poor nation's atomic bomb. (pastorlindstedt.org)