CDC is no longer policing its own labs and has asked USDA to conduct inspections CDC says it won%27t release copies of its internal inspection reports%2C citing security reasons The IG%27s office ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled, improperly stored and shipped samples of potentially infectious plague bacteria, which can cause several deadly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

States are slowly getting better prepared to handle bioterrorism, but most still don't have statewide response plans and federal funding is declining, according to a new report. The report echoed ...

Savage terror attacks in recent years have killed thousands of people in the United States, Western Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The increasingly brazen acts ...

Pharmathene is one of a smattering of small and undercapitalized biotechnology outfits trying to develop either vaccines or antidotes for anthrax, which remains, in the opinion of a lot of experts ...

n the evening of March 30, 1979, an invisible cloud of anthrax spores drifted over Sverdlovsk, a large Russian industrial city in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The anthrax release, which ...

"You can make it in your kitchen from a plant you grow in your garden." People can be exposed to ricin through a variety of ways: inhaling the powder, ingesting powder or castor beans, or having ...

An ambitious federal program to protect big cities from biological attacks is running six years late and $3.7 billion over its projected cost — and nobody has been able to make it work, The Post ...

For a further account of cult bioterror, read the story of how Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, famous for its 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, established a secret test lab on a ...