Documents Show Vast Cleanup of Plum Island Land Jun 27, 2010
Despite environmentalists concerns about the legacy of studies on dangerous animal diseases and top-secret Army germ warfare research, authorities have removed vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island ... Government documents obtained by The Associated Press show extensive efforts since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island, site of top-secret Army germ warfare research and decades of studies of dangerous animal diseases ... It wasn't until the... (ABC News -- Wire)
Stephen Hawking: Contacting Aliens Is Dangerous Apr 26, 2010
But in actuality, the reason the contact was so disasterous to the Native Americans had nothing to do with technological superiority, but instead what you would term "germ warfare" When the two groups of people intersected it turned out that the Europeans had terrible diseases that the Native Americans had no natural immunity to - when those diseases spread across America it wiped most of the Native American population out, and the remaining population numbers were far too few to go to war and... (CBS News)
Tsunami Models Need Test, Scientists Say Mar 3, 2010
"The projects, which have not been previously disclosed, were begun under President Clinton and have been embraced by the Bush administration, which intends to expand them. Earlier this year, administration officials 00000CEF said, the Pentagon drew up plans to engineer genetically a potentially more potent variant of the bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease ideal for germ warfare.". "A published account of the experiment, which appeared in a scientific journal in late 1997, alarmed... (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
How To Sell Germ Warfare Feb 25, 2010
Can hand sanitizers like Purell really stop people from getting the flu. - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Russia's faux-Botox industry raises brows on germ warfare Jan 30, 2010
8:41PM Sat January 30, 2010. A booming black market creates easy access to a lethal toxin, writes Joby Warrick. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Study: WMD Attack In U.S. Likely By 2013 Jan 26, 2010
It suggests that the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists. "Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing," states the report, obtained by The Associated Press. (CBS News -- World)
