Frozen in time: Botox over the years Oct 23, 2007
Before long, botulinum toxin type A became the go-to toxin in research labs around the world (despite fears about its use in germ warfare). The '70s and 80s The birth of Botox In 1978, Scott received FDA approval to inject tiny amounts of botulinum toxin into human volunteers and soon, the results started rolling in. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Insects: tougher than anthrax Oct 22, 2007
The ruins of the yellow-rat breeding room at Japan's notorious germ warfare center, Unit 731, in China. (Corbis). (Boston Globe)
Homeland Security: Germ Warfare Oct 19, 2007
Today in Investor's Business Daily stock analysis and business news. INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY. (Investors Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily: Germ Warfare. Monday Special. (Investors Business Daily)
'Playstation generation' have poor immune systems Sep 26, 2007
Professor Ken Jones, an immunologist at Cardiff School of Health Sciences, said "germ warfare" could prove damaging for children. "With the huge media attention around dangerous bacteria such as MRSA, the marketing hype pushing total annihilation of bacteria via wipes or sprays, coupled with the dangerous reliance on antibiotics for almost any infection, there is a real concern that we are misunderstanding bacteria and the vital role some bacteria can play in our overall health and well-being... (Daily Mail)
On death row for 32 years, artist Hirasawa's mystery resurfaces Sep 5, 2007
A 1985 book by William Triplett said the delayed effect of the poison indicated it was not cyanide, as stated in the trial, but a binary chemical developed by the Imperial Army's infamous 731 germ warfare unit. Triplett pointed to U.S. archives that show the occupation forces knew the Tokyo Police investigation of the case centered on members of 731. (News on Japan, Japan)
Today in History August 27 Aug 27, 2007
A Tokyo court acknowledged for the first time Japans use of biological weapons before and during World War II, but rejected demands for compensation by 180 Chinese who claimed they were victims of the germ warfare program. One year ago: A Comair CRJ-100 crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky. (MSNBC -- Race)
Canadian Energy Producers, Talisman Decline on U.S. Economy; Banks Advance Aug 8, 2007
The producer of decontamination equipment for germ warfare said on Aug. 3 that it agreed to buy closely held Med-Eng Systems Inc. for C$600 million ($569 million). Both of the Ottawa- based companies make bomb-disposal suits and helmets. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Germs surround you but you can fight back Jul 18, 2007
" What about the notion that we can build stronger immune systems by exposing ourselves to lots of crud? Sorry, epidemiologists say, it's an urban myth and an excuse used by bad housekeepers. Not washing your hands after you sneeze or neglecting to wash the kitchen counter will not make you more hardy. Just less healthy. GERM WARFARE The germiest place in most homes is: The toilet. The garbage pail. The refrigerator door handle. The kitchen sink. The front door handle. Answer: According to... (The News-Herald)
Comment: Polly Toynbee Jul 6, 2007
That one is high on the priority list and Johnson has announced 50m more for germ warfare. Are we sure that's where doctors and nurses would allocate extra cash. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Plague of Bioweapons Accidents Afflict U.S. Jul 6, 2007
Plague, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever - these are among the bioweapons some experts fear could be used in a germ warfare attack against the US. But the public has had near-misses with those diseases and others over the past five years, ironically because of accidents in labs that were working to defend against bioterrorists. Even worse, they may be only the tip of an iceberg. (Newsmax)
Drugs tested on unwary subjects Jun 28, 2007
One of the most notorious of these cases involved Frank Olson, a CIA germ warfare expert who died in a fall from a hotel window in 1953, nine days after a CIA doctor spiked his after-dinner drink with LSD. In 1975 President Gerald Ford invited Mr Olson's family to the White House to apologise; the government later paid the family $750,000. Stanley Gottlieb, chief of the CIA's technical services division who directed the mind-control experiments, retired from the government in 1973 and died in... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Hoover student diagnosed with TB Jun 28, 2007
They gave them syphillus infected blankets and small pox, first case of germ warfare and it worked pretty well killed thousands. But who cares they were just Indians. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Chinese plaintiffs protest against ruling of Japanese Supreme Court May 21, 2007
The plaintiffs' statement was released at a press conference at the Japanese Germ Warfare Museum, located at an ancestral temple in Congshan Village of Yiwu City in southeastern Zhejiang province ... The Japanese imperial army's "Unit 731" and "Unit 1644" waged germ warfare in China between 1931 and 1945 in violation of the Geneva Convention ... The plaintiffs -- 180 Chinese victims of the Japanese germ warfare and their relatives -- first began a lawsuit against the Japanese government,... (People's Daily Online, China)
War damages appeals by Chinese rejected by Japanese supreme court May 10, 2007
Two damages appeals filed by Chinese, one seeking compensation over germ warfare during World War II and the other over the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, were both dismissed by the ese Supreme Court on Wednesday. The final judgments upheld earlier decisions by the Tokyo District Court and the Tokyo High Court, which acknowledged the suffering of the total of 198 plaintiffs or their bereaved family members, however rejected their demand for war reparations from Japan. (People's Daily Online, China)
Md. vies with 10 states for lab May 8, 2007
Research goals include ways to prevent and counter the effects of germ warfare. The budget for Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground has doubled over the past several years. (SunSpot.net)
CIA Veteran Accuses Tenet of 'Lie' May 6, 2007
"This is a defense that he and Harlow cooked up, Drumheller said in an interview last week, referring to Tenet and his writing assistant, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow. At issue is "Curveball, the code name for an Iraqi refugee in the hands of German intelligence, who claimed that Saddam Hussein had a fleet of secret mobile germ warfare laboratories. Story Continues Below. (Newsmax)
Germ warfare fought on new front in clean land May 2, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Mark CoultanMay 2, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Prevention Is Key to Mastitis Control in Sheep Mar 16, 2007
If producers know the enemy, what is causing the mastitis, then they are able to better prepare for 'germ warfare', said Leo Timms, Iowa State University Extension dairy science specialist during the Sheep Management WISLINE program series conference call last week. "If you're not looking for mastitis in your herd, you've missed the boat," he said. (Agri-View, WI)
Extreme germ warfare Mar 14, 2007
So, actually, those of us engaged in daily germ warfare -- we who use tissues to touch door handles or make guests remove their shoes -- might represent ``a fairly reasonable return to normal thinking,'' Bell said. Germs, humans coexist. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
Homeland Security requires Lodi food plants to take precautions Mar 14, 2007
The reason, he said, is that few people would be affected by someone putting anthrax or another form of germ warfare into food at the small store at Cottage Bakery. Society would be harmed greatly, however, if someone attacked the flour silos, Spence said. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Geopolitics: Meddling In The Middle East Mar 9, 2007
Today in Investor's Business Daily stock analysis and business news. Meddling In The Middle East. (Investors Business Daily)
Damascus reportedly hiding WMD among commercial pharmaceuticals Mar 5, 2007
WorldNetDaily: Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran. A Free Press For A Free People. (WorldNetDaily)
Keep September 11 in perspective, says judge Feb 21, 2007
Australia was vulnerable today for a number of reasons, including the ready availability of explosive substances, germ warfare and other weapons, the fact that Australia contained cities with very large localised populations, and the "very high value" it placed on human life. send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or us. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
One vs. a trillion Feb 7, 2007
No matter what your form of germ warfare and how diligently you use it, you're never going to rid yourself or your environment of germs. Graphic. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Questions about germ warfare still plague Feb 6, 2007
And: In 2007, what is the global threat of germ warfare -- and from whom ... Moral dilemmas were overshadowed by the patriotic conviction that all means must be used to defeat Hitler who, it turned out, had not mounted a serious germ warfare program ... Afraid that Germany would use biological weapons against England, Winston Churchill asked the United States in 1942 to develop a large-scale germ warfare program. (Boston Globe -- Living)
South Africa:Scientists Gave Away Miracle Microbe to U.S. Feb 4, 2007
This is very different from conventional antibiotics in which "good" bacteria such as penicillin directly attack "bad" bacteria in a kind of germ warfare -- leading to drug resistance by the bacteria that manage to fend off the attacks. Merck Research Laboratories scientists announced their finding in May last year, and have been widely celebrated since, but the implications for SA are only now beginning to emerge. (allAfrica.com)
School for Young Tigers Feb 4, 2007
Much more serious is the threat from germ warfare because they are starting to use (BTI) against us, and this produces a deadly poison. Avoid it if you can. (Suite101.com)
Ex-reporter testifies Libby told her about CIA employee Jan 31, 2007
" Miller is one of the trial's most compelling figures, because of her high-profile role covering Iraq's alleged weapons programs, her extensive contacts with Libby, and the time she spent in an Alexandria, Va., jail for refusing to reveal his identity as her source until Libby urged her to cooperate. She left the New York Times in 2005 and now works as a freelance journalist. Miller's jailing became a media event, but also raised questions about how far journalists should go in protecting their... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Reporter takes stand against source Jan 31, 2007
During her testimony, Miller described how she got to know Libby while co-authoring a book on germ warfare. She said that after she returned from Iraq in June 2003 to become a reporter in the New York Times' Washington bureau, she sought Libby out as a source for stories about why weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq. (Los Angeles Times)
Ex-Times writer says Libby linked Wilson's wife to CIA Jan 31, 2007
Miller said she had come to know Libby when she was working on a book on germ warfare. After an overseas assignment, she returned to the Washington bureau of The New York Times in June 2003, as the debate raged over whether the Bush administration had twisted the intelligence it had used to go to war in Iraq. (SunSpot.net)
Who Will Kill The Evil Germs? Jan 27, 2007
A dispatch from the front lines of domestic germ warfare ... A dispatch from the front lines of domestic germ warfare. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A dispatch from the front lines of domestic germ warfare Jan 27, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007. Microwave your sponge, kill bacteria dead. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Iraq debate occupies papers Jan 25, 2007
The Times reports on an MI5 warning that Islamic terrorists are training in germ warfare using biological agents including polio, rabies and avian flu. Britain's laboratories have been told to strengthen security on stocks of over 100 viruses and bacteria, it says. (BBC News -- UK)
Carter bringing "Eyewitness" ex00000506hibit to Atlanta Jan 25, 2007
Other items on display include George Washington's handwritten letter to John Hancock speculating on Britain's use of germ warfare; a 1862 letter from runaway slave John Boston to his wife, Elizabeth; and a transcript of Lady Bird Johnson's audio diary from the day of President John Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. "Eyewitness accounts combine information and emotion," Hakes said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bioterrorism Alerts Induce Anxiety And May Pose Health Risk, Study Finds Jan 24, 2007
-- Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally-occurring or human-modified toxin or biological. . (Science Daily)
Abortion's elusive middle ground Jan 19, 2007
Keroack's PowerPoint lectures should be regulars on "The Colbert Report." In the most infamous, appropriately titled "If I Only Had a Brain," he teaches that "premarital sex is really modern germ warfare." His unique "scientific explanation" of why multiple sex partners are bad has to do with, uh, oxytocin. "People who have misused their sexual faculty and become bonded to multiple persons will diminish the power of oxytocin to maintain a permanent bond with an individual." More sex leads to... (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
An American waged germ warfare against U.S. in WWI Jan 15, 2007
Reviewed by Rebecca Maksel. Sunday, January 14, 2007. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Up Close and Personal Taste of Socialized Medicine Jan 13, 2007
We were giddy with the prospect of not constantly engaging in germ warfare. As for the caliber of medicine practiced at Queen's Square, we were quite impressed at the collegiality of the doctors and the tendency to make medical judgments based on group consultations. (Fox News)
Surge Overkill: Jan 8, 2007
Could polonium-210 become to this decade what germ warfare was to the 1990s. America's radiation-shield manufacturers are hoping the answer is yes. (Slate)
Contractors resume work on filling in trench at Point State Park Dec 28, 2006
Mr. Nixon said the fort, which survived the siege during the French and Indian War, was the largest British stronghold in North America and an early site of germ warfare. The British commander reportedly gave two smallpox-exposed blankets to the Indians. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Developing Bioterror Weapons for Offensive Use Dec 22, 2006
" Boyle contends the U.S. is "in breach" of both the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons conventions and U.S. domestic criminal law. In Feb., 2003, for example, the U.S. granted itself a patent on an illegal long-range biological weapons grenade. Boyle said other countries grasp the military implications of U.S. germ warfare actions and will respond in kind. "The world will soon witness a de facto biological arms race among the major biotech states under the guise of `defense,' and despite... (Ocnus.net)
New Test May Allow For Rapid Detection Of Smallpox Virus Dec 14, 2006
Researchers from Spain have developed a new test that may rapidly detect the variola virus, the etiological agent of smallpox, as well as differentiate it from other orthopoxviruses while avoiding false-negative results. Their findings appear in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. (Science Daily)
Microneedle Vaccination Technique Protects Rabbits Against Inhalation Anthrax Using Smaller Dosage Dec 14, 2006
Microneedle-based vaccination with the current anthrax vaccine produced an equally effective immune response to intramuscular injection in rabbits using smaller dosage say researcher from Maryland and North Carolina. They report their findings in the December 2006 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity. (Science Daily)
Bioterrorism Bill Approved by Congress Dec 10, 2006
Many experts have warned that the United States is poorly prepared to respond to a terrorism attack involving germ warfare agents, like anthrax or small pox, or to potential pandemics like bird flu. The measure would provide $1 billion over three years to develop vaccines and drugs to counter such threats. (Newsmax)
Americans Sick of Getting Sick Dec 6, 2006
ABC News: Germ Warfare. December 6, 2006. (ABC News)
THE SEMI-SWEET SCIENCE Dec 4, 2006
One, two, three, four. " I thought I misheard him, so I gave him an "excuse me. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Japanese veteran admits vivisection tests on PoWs Nov 27, 2006
A Chinese woman visits the ruins of the yellow-rat breeding room at the Japanese germ warfare centre operated by Unit 731, near the Chinese city of Harbin ... Unit 731, the imperial Japanese army's notorious germ warfare unit, killed thousands of Chinese civilians and Allied PoWs at its sprawling complex in Harbin, northern China, from the late 1930s until the end of the war. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
* Former Japanese navy medic admits to performing live POW vivisections Nov 27, 2006
Similar experiments were conducted in northern China by the notorious germ warfare Unit 731, which is blamed for the deaths of up to 10,000 Chinese and Allied prisoners of war, the report added. Akira Makino, 84, a former officer of the medical corps of the Imperial Japanese Navy's No. 33 patrol unit, said the experiments on live prisoners began in December 1944, shortly after he was assigned to Zamboanga air base on the Philippines' Mindanao Island. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Moscow Steps Up Spying in United Kingdom Nov 22, 2006
The Irish Examiner recalls that a post mortem examination, conducted with the help of scientists from the British governments germ warfare centre at Porton Down, established he had been killed by a tiny pellet containing a 0. 2 milligram dose of ricin. (Ocnus.net)
County’s GIS to help residents Nov 21, 2006
If there was a terrorist attack of germ warfare, the map and surrounding property owner names, would be helpful in identification and notification. Dispatch would be helped immensely. (Carthage Press, MO)
Abortion foe to lead on family planning Nov 17, 2006
In a 2003 presentation to the International Abstinence Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Keroack wrote in a PowerPoint item that "PRE-MARITAL SEX is really MODERN GERM WARFARE." The presentation outlined a purported scientific basis for how premarital sex ruins later relationships. Keroack said teenage sexual activity blunts the brain's ability to develop emotional relationships. (Boston Globe)
John Gallagher: "I'm amazed and overwhelmed by the contribution vets make to the community" Nov 8, 2006
Local leaders tried to warn people on the ground that the packages might contain germ warfare agents. Rather than discard them, the finders would put the bags in with their livestock. (The Burke Times, VA)
Hindu schoolboy turned terrorist planned to kill thousands Nov 7, 2006
But the court heard: "As time went by he became involved in attending meetings which were described as semi extreme and more radical."He heard, for the first time, of the Mujahideen, Jihad, and references to the Kuffar (disbelievers)".In 1995, Barot flew to Pakistan and the disputed territory of Kashmir where he attended a terrorist training camp.It was, said the Crown, 'intensive training in various aspects of terrorism' for at least five months.Police recovered copious notes made by Barot -... (This is London)
Germ warfare: Don't let colds, flu get you down Oct 19, 2006
Pass the tissues: Cold and flu season is here. Respiratory viruses thrive from late fall to early spring. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
When trouble strikes, take two truffles Oct 18, 2006
Who wants to ruin a perfectly good kale saute wondering if germ warfare is being fought in the foliage. Who wants to dampen a walk on the lakefront by counting footsteps, dividing by body mass and discounting for the portable doughnut. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Pentagon to resume forced anthrax vaccine program Oct 17, 2006
Anthrax spores can be used in germ warfare to give victims the deadly bacterial disease. The Pentagon argues the shots are needed to protect troops against bioterrorism. (Reuters)
Nanotechnology To Stop Weaponized Anthrax In Its Tracks Oct 10, 2006
Picture a spider web coated with sugar. But instead of luring in unsuspecting creatures, this spider web pulls in deadly anthrax spores, rendering them harmless. (Science Daily)
Cuba waging war against dengue fever Oct 8, 2006
Cuba blamed the United States for the outbreak, saying in a 1999 lawsuit that Washington unleashed the disease in an act of germ warfare. The U.S. State Department has denied causing the epidemic. (The Miami Herald)
Smart Fitness: Germ warfare at the gym Oct 4, 2006
Germ warfare at the gym - Smart Fitness - MSNBC.com ... Germ warfare at the gym. (MSNBC -- International)
Top guns prepare for Zuma battle Sep 5, 2006
A senior reporter said of Trengove: "What he picks he usually wins." In 2005 he persuaded the Constitutional Court that the State should be allowed to reopen the case against acquitted apartheid era germ warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson. Zuma's co-accused Thint, the South African subsidiary of the French arms manufacturer Thales, is represented by Naidu. (iAfrica.com)
Japan asked to redress wartime atrocities Aug 27, 2006
Among other issues to be discussed at the conference are Japanese wartime exploitation of slave labor from China and other countries, Japanese troops' resort to biological and germ warfare, and the danger of on-going Japanese re-armament. Enditem. (Xinhuanet, China)
New evidence of Japanese germ warfare found Aug 21, 2006
HANGZHOU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese historian has just found more evidence of the Japanese germ warfare after his four-day investigation from last Thursday to Sunday in Yiwu of east China's Zhejiang Province. "The Japanese germ warfare has damaged the social structure in Chinese countryside and even family ties," said Makoto Ueda, a 49-year-old professor of history with the Rikkyo University in Tokyo, who planned to write a book based on his newly discovered 47 books of family tree from the... (Xinhuanet, China)
Japan PM's shrine visit sparks anger in China Aug 16, 2006
In Hangzhou, capital of China's Province, survivors of Japan's germ warfare in China were "indignant" over Koizumi's move. Yang Dafang, whose father died in the germ warfare in 1940, said Koizumi's visits to the shrine not only hurt the feelings of the Chinese victims and their relatives, but also undermined the relations between the two peoples. (People's Daily Online, China)
Nanowire 'Barcode' System Speeds Up Bio Detection In The Field Aug 9, 2006
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)
