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When a rare and deadly infection suddenly appears out of time and place, today's clinician cannot exclude the possibility of bioterrorism. A case of plague (Yersinia pestis) had not been [...]

Leery of taking any incident too lightly, hard-pressed infection control professionals are responding to anthrax hoaxes and suspicious powder reports that are bedeviling both public health efforts and delivery of [...]

In a stark commentary on the state of the world, some hospitals in Washington, DC, had implemented syndromic surveillance for the commonly suspected bioterrorism agents days before a hijacked airliner [...]

Given the difficulty of creating high-quality anthrax in a civilian research lab, the original source of the Bacillus anthracis that killed five people last year was likely a U.S. bioweapons [...]

Already asked by federal investigators to assist in finding the anthrax mailer, the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) is taking the next step and discussing the emerging science of bioterrorism [...]