4/05/04 British authorities arrested terrorism suspects planning to make a bomb of osmium tetroxide - highly toxic
4/06/04 9 people hospitalized due to strong smelling powder near ATM machine in Rio de Janero, Brazil
4/07/04 Miami airport workers exposed to chemical odor
4/08/04 Entomologists suggest insects can be used to distribute deadly pathogens over wide geographic areas
4/09/04 A component of green tea has been found to kill leukemia cells
4/09/04 N. Novgorod School shut down due to 387 of 900 children ill with Norovirus
4/09/04 Portland Lewis & Clark College virus outbreak hits 80 students
4/09/04 Adoptees from China bring measles to 9 of 12 children who arrived in Seattle
4/11/04 Ft. Collins, Colorado whooping cough cases piling up - 126 cases; Massachusetts had 438 and NY had 388 as of early April
4/12/04 University of Hawaii student diagnosed with Leptospirosis (not Dengue as previously believed)
4/13/04 Hundreds evacuated after malfunction at Dalton chemical plant (Georgia) forms vapor cloud of allyl alcohol
4/13/04 Flu-causing virus hits Wake Forest two months after hitting UNC-Chapel Hill
4/13/04 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a Kirkland, Washington man on charges of possession of ricin, the second most deadly toxin known to man
4/14/04 Chemical leak on railroad car carrying 20,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid at Sullivan T-stop / Boston
4/15/04 Omaha's Ameritrade Corporation received package with mouse droppings - tests confirmed NOT Hanta Virus
4/15/04 Montana has 6th death due to Hanta virus - Glacier Park System Director
4/15/04 Veraguas, Panama has third case of Hanta virus
4/20/04 Westchester man contracts Avian flu (H7N2)
4/20/04 Banana Bunchy-Top disease (BBTD) confirmed on eastern big island
4/20/04 Boston asked to block building of bio-terrorism laboratory in heart of city due to risk factors<[>
4/20/04 31 BC commercial poultry farms now infected with Avian influenza
4/20/04 Scottish scientists warn a better way must be found in dealing with chemical and biological terror threat
4/22/04 Crows test positive for West Nile virus in LA county
4/22/04 North Carolina stops testing for West Nile virus; instead will concentrate on controlling mosquitoes
4/23/04 Mohamad Babadoost, Plant Pathology Professor, warns of disease threatening cucumbers, pumpkins and other vine crops (Phytophthora blight)
4/23/04 FBI tracking crop duster threat. They've interviewed thousands of pilots dues to concerns planes could be used to spread chemicals or biological weapons
4/23/04 Staphylococcus Aureus, a common infection acquired in hospital and long term facility settings is noted in a recently documented case at a long term facility
4/26/04 Six workers at Miami airport became ill (4th time a concourse has been closed after security screeners became sick in recent months)
4/26/04 Chlorine gas leaks in Nanchang, China. 22 people severely injured, hundreds with symptoms of poisoning. This was the 2nd leak in a month
4/26/04 Jordan says it broke up a plot to release a deadly cloud of 71 different chemicals, including blistering agents and nerve gas, and 20 tons of explosives
4/26/04 3,300 gallons of Rheocrete, a form of nitrate, were stolen from a concrete plant in Bogota, NJ. Not located to date
4/26/04 State of Georgia statistics for tuberculosis above average due to refugees and legal and undocumented immigrants
4/26/04 Candies from Mexico found to contain lead - children taken ill
4/26/04 Shrimp virus discovered in Kauai, as well as Japan, China, Thailand, Philippines, and Central and South America. Harmless to humans. Every time you buy shrimp from the store, you're probably getting the white spot virus
4/26/04 Borden Chemical plant in Louisville, TN, exploded, four dead. Manufacturing used phenol and other chemicals to create resins
4/27/04 8 cases of SARS documented in China
4/27/04 Russia's chief sanitary inspector called upon colleagues to be prepared for an outbreak of plague
4/27/04 Notation of CIA investigations include a possible tie-in of virulent strain of smallpox from a Russian scientist to Iraq
4/27/04 A man with tuberculosis in Santa Barbara, California disobeyed his quarantine and infected 56 people
4/28/04 12 cases of CJD (mad cow disease) are tied in to people who ate at a Garden State racetrack
4/28/04 At Morro Bay, California, 15 otters are stranded, some are dead. Domoic acid is the suspected cause of death
4/28/04 There is a Dengue Fever outbreak in Hong Kong
4/28/04 The Chinese province of Sichuan has been hit by a potentially lethal outbreak of measles - 300 people infected
4/28/04 China is on high alert for new cases of SARS
4/28/04 Nipah virus outbreak in Bangladesk killing 25 of 29 infected people *60 to 74% mortality rate)
4/28/04 Fayette stores evacuated after indescribable odor caused several shoppers to feel ill
4/28/04 President Bush signed a presidential directive to protect us from biological attack. It contains 59 instructions for government agencies and the improvement of "Biowatch" system guarding 31 cities
4/29/04 A freight container marked "freight of all kinds" (which can mean anything) exploded at Southland Port (LA)
4/29/04 Brushly, in West Baton Rouge Parish, sent two elementary schools' children home early after vapor stench from a chemical barge (sodium hydrosulfide solution)
4/29/04 Killer bees sting two people multiple times at Lakeside, California
4/29/04 A chemical cloud was released in West Bottoms (Kansas City, MO) when an oxidizing chemical was mixed with a fertilizer
4/29/04 Pipeline ruptures near San Francisco, gushing diesel fuel into marsh nesting area
4/30/04 Outbreak of 50 cases of measles in central part of Mexico
4/30/04 St. Petersburg, Russia, thieves make off with 14 tons of titanium metal. Titanium dust may form an explosive mixture with air. Flammable. Incompatible with mineral acids, halogens, carbon dioxide, strong oxidizing agents. Titanium is harmful if inhaled. Dust is an eye irritant
4/30/04 A highway that passes within feet of a major Texas refinery is now permanently closed to protect against possible terror attack (Conoco-Philips in Sweeny, Texas)
4/30/04 The Red Cross is recruiting candidates for several US cities
4/30/04 17 cattle mysteriously die at Gilman Ranch, Texas as well as a dog and a squirrel. All are found near new oil rig
4/30/04 Des Moines, Iowa, a man uses phony papers and a bad check and leaves with 7,000 pounds of farm chemicals
4/30/04 Two Mount St. Mary College students (Neuburgh) have whooping cough; 44 with symptoms are sent home
4/30/04 An Armenian villager contracts anthrax
4/30/04 A man is in isolation and has been tested for SARS at Providence Everett Medical Center in Everett, Washington. He had been traveling in China
4/30/04 The US Army believes Doppler Radar Network already has the elements of biochemical weapons detection system running. Congress has authorized $15 million to develop existing system into Homeland Defense Chemical Biological Umbrella
5/01/04 Norwegian Cruise Lines from Philadelphia to Bermuda has 33 passengers and two crew with norovirus and 63 passengers with headaches and nausea from exhaust fumes
5/01/04 Canberra, Australia. Press release to plan for possibility of terrorists infecting themselves with deadly germs and spreading through the population
5/02/04 Ottawa, Canada has funded $20.6 million for counter-terrorism science and technology
5/02/04 Carmel, California has conducted a drill for make-believe disaster involving the release of infectious agent Tularemia in a mall
5/02/04 Three people are taken to the hospital after suffering a reaction to white powder in a package delivered to the real estate agents at Townends in Hamworth Lane. Tests are being conducted
5/02/04 Bio terror tops the list of fears for the G-8 summit in Southeast Georgia June 8-10. Decontamination drills have been run
5/02/04 St. John, New Brunswick, a patient is in isolation and five others are under observation after necrotizing fascitis (the flesh-eating disease) claimed one person