Local emergency management officials hooked up with their counterparts from around the nation by satellite Thursday to discuss how to handle a bioterrorism attack. Participants in the event, hosted at ...

In response to Spokane's 1999 anthrax scare, the pharmacy department at Deaconess Medical Center developed an anthrax postexposure prophylaxis policy that incorporated CDC's recommendations for ...

Sometime during the summer of 1918, an influenza virus that had recently swept through the United States and Europe evolved into a far more virulent organism. World War I was still underway when the ...

Dec. 19, 2005 (Philadelphia) -- Teaching hospital staffs, particularly from larger urban-based facilities, have undertaken the greatest amount of training for potential terrorist attacks and mass ...

The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated ...

In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?” The answer was a resounding no. The experts ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...