Five University of Texas health care institutions have begun training nearly 20,000 state health providers for possible bioterrorism attacks. Federal funding for the two-year effort, $3.6 million, ...

Minnesota is better prepared than most states to respond to a bioterrorism attack -- but short of where public health officials think it should be. Minnesota's and the nation's ability to cope with a ...

Local emergency management officials hooked up with their counterparts from around the nation by satellite Thursday to discuss how to handle a bioterrorism attack. Participants in the event, hosted at ...

Treating cases of bioterrorism has become quite a learning experience for doctors. Most doctors have never seen a case of anthrax. A chart listing the possible symptoms of biological diseases is the ...

There, scientists will spend their days simulating the unthinkable: bioterrorism attacks in the form of lethal anthrax spores rendered as wispy powders that can drift for miles on a summer breeze, or ...

The first victims of a bioterrorist attack could be pets. Animals are often more sensitive to the biological, chemical and radioactive agents that might be used in such an attack. A group of ...

ATLANTA — In an effort to detect bioterrorism attacks at an early stage, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are studying ways to access and analyze prediagnostic health data for ...

NEW YORK -- Public health officials have developed an odd interest lately in the mundane and arcane. Epidemiologists are tracking orange juice sales at the local Safeway and poring over school ...

The New York Medical College is making major investments in its Valhalla facility, hoping to become a leader in bioterrorism and disaster training. The college unveiled the new center devoted to ...

The White House wanted to know: How much safer are Americans today than they were on October 4, 2001? That was the day when a photo editor in Florida became the first reported case of inhalation ...

The circumstances associated with the potential use of biological agents for terrorism are unlike those associated with conventional attacks. For example, the detection of an attack may not be ...