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Posted: August 8, 2006. Detecting biowarfare agents in the field will become a lot easier thanks to a new barcode system based on biosensing nanowires developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers. (Science Daily)
Doctor's View Annie Egan A Tale of Two Infections While strep has become manageable, staph has spread from hospitals into communities Aug 5, 2006
We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must be prepared to fight battles which will be waged microscopically as well as deep in our throats, skin, hearts and bones. (Time.com)
Teachers bring living history to classes Aug 3, 2006
Then there were visits with two villagers, ages 85 and 83, in the countryside of Beijing, who were taken and tortured in forced labour camps in Japan at the height of the war, and another stop at Harbin's Japanese Germ Warfare Base Museum which once housed the infamous Unit 731, which tested biochemical weapons on live Chinese. The overwhelming experience of the 16-day "Peace and Reconciliation Study Tour" in July, organized by the Canada Association for Learning and Preserving the History of... (Toronto Star -- GTA)
Chemical Warfare Ravages Mental Health Of Iranian Civilians Aug 2, 2006
-- Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of. . (Science Daily)
* Washington germ warfare laboratory sparks concerns Aug 1, 2006
Washington germ warfare laboratory sparks concerns ... Advertising Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapons, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
US building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre Jul 31, 2006
Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race. The National Biodefence Analysis and Countermeasures Centre (NBACC), due to be completed in 2008, will house heavily guarded and hermetically sealed chambers in which scientists simulate potential terrorist attacks. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Reed: Unit 731 Jul 8, 2006
This Japanese germ warfare headquarters and laboratory in Manchuria, northern China, did not hold as many victims, but atrocities committed there were physically worse than in the Nazi concentration camp, and lasted much longer. . (Zmag.org)
Journal: Smallpox Threat, Vaccinate Now Jun 27, 2006
A germ warfare attack "would make our 1918 influenza epidemic, with a case-fatality rate of 2 percent and more than 67,000 deaths, truly look like a walk in the park," he added. Sen. (Newsmax)
WP: Details on WMD fabricator emerge Jun 26, 2006
He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare ... In the same speech that contained the now famous "16 words" on Iraqi attempts to acquire uranium, Bush spoke in far greater detail about mobile labs "designed to produce germ warfare agents." ... Curveball described himself as a chemical engineer who had worked inside an unusual kind of laboratory, one that was built on a trailer bed and produced weapons for germ warfare. (MSNBC -- International)
Top CIA officials ignore warnings on Iraq WMD fabricator Jun 26, 2006
In late January 2003, as then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller went through a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors and found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare, the report said ... Other warnings came prior to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address on Jan. 28, 2003, which contained the now famous... (Xinhuanet, China)
Iraq WMD red flags ignored, ex-CIA aide tells paper Jun 25, 2006
He said he also issued warnings before President George W. Bush's Jan. 28, 2003, State of the Union speech that included Bush statements about Iraq's mobile labs "designed to produce germ warfare agents.". The warnings had no visible impact on then-CIA Director George Tenet, the paper said, who vouched for the accuracy of the mobile lab claim in briefing Powell before his speech. (AlertNet)
CIA Veteran Says He Tried To Stop Weapons Claims Jun 25, 2006
" While the administration has repeatedly acknowledged intelligence failures over Iraqi weapons claims that led to war, new accounts by former insiders such as Drumheller shed light on one of the most spectacular failures of all: how U.S. intelligence agencies were eagerly drawn in by a troubled defector's stories of secret germ factories in the Iraqi desert. The mobile labs were never found. Private Debates About Accuracy Drumheller is writing a book about his experiences. He described in... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
The real first world war? Jun 21, 2006
There's a ghastly portrait of Geoffrey Amherst, the Brit credited only slightly unfairly with inventing germ warfare (he only gave Indians smallpox-infested blankets after an epidemic was already under way). There's a Scots claymore broadsword, once brandished by a colonel Thomson as he ran screaming across the Plains of Abraham -- and the reminder that the Scots, so recently crushed by the British at Culloden, fought on both sides. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Biotech Engages in Germ Warfare Jun 10, 2006
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Germ Warfare Jun 7, 2006
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A biological threat? Jun 6, 2006
FredPAC members and supporters lined the stage with signs including "Stop germ warfare," "No arms race," and "Who mailed the anthrax?" -- a reference to the still-unsolved 2001 mailings of anthrax that killed five people and may have originated from Fort Detrick's laboratories. Speakers included Barry Kissin, a Frederick attorney and Democratic candidate for Congress, and Frederick resident Eric Olson. (Frederick News-Post)
Japanese monk continues "apology trip" for Chinese war victims May 13, 2006
Iwata Ryuzo, a 70-year-old Japanese monk, chanted scriptures and performed confessional rituals at a notorious Japanese germ warfare site and a memorial for Chinese war heroes based in Harbin,the capital city of Heilongjiang over the past two days ... The germ warfare site is located in a suburb of Harbin, where the secretive Japanese detachment Unit 731 conducted biochemical experiments on live people. (Xinhuanet, China)
Germ warfare: Focus on phone, not doorknob May 3, 2006
CNN.com - Germ warfare: Focus onphone, notdoorknob - May 2, 2006. Germ warfare: Focus on phone, not doorknob. (CNN -- Health)
COLUMN: You're an illegal immigrant, too! Apr 28, 2006
The very thing that we used as an excuse to attack Iraq, that we blamed on Saddam Hussein, germ warfare, weapons of mass destruction, was used by the U.S. Army and government upon the indigenous people of this land. Recently, after seeing a white man with an inflammatory shirt which declared "No Amnesty for Illegals," I wondered if he thought about our conversation after I talked to him. (U-Wire.com)
Anthrax kills cattle on beef farm Apr 26, 2006 Scared of avian flu? Mold? Pet hair? Housewares are here to help Apr 6, 2006 Researchers Develop Rapid, Comprehensive Diagnostic Test For Ebola, Marburg, And Other High-risk Pathogens Mar 17, 2006 It's germ warfare: Teachers at head of class in battle vs. bacteria Feb 17, 2006 Full Speed Ahead Jan 8, 2006 Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Jan 1, 2006
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Newly Discovered Protein Kills Anthrax Bacteria By Exploding Their Cell Walls Apr 22, 2006
-- Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally-occurring or human-modified toxin or biological ... -- Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of. (Science Daily)
Housewares are here to help. Housewares are here to help. (San Francisco Chronicle)
-- Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally-occurring or human-modified toxin or biological. . (Science Daily)
com - Health ss: It s germ warfare: Teachers at head of class in battle vs. bacteria ... It s germ warfare: Teachers at head of class in battle vs. bacteria By Jessica Fargen Friday, February 17, 2006. (Boston Herald--Health)
Jan. 9, 2006 issue - The talk at the White House in the days and weeks after 9/11 was all about suitcase nukes and germ warfare and surprise decapitation strikes. Every morning, as they crossed West Executive Drive on their way to work in the West Wing, Bush administration staffers recall seeing a plain white truck with a galvanized metal chimney. (MSNBC -- Politics)
I recommend Germ Warfare, Judith Miller et al.. . (AlterNet.org)
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