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Feds Prepare for Smallpox Quarantine Federal Officials Ready Plan for Quarantine in Case of Smallpox The Associated Press A T L A N T A, July 8 — Federal health officials are quietly making plans for quarantining Americans who might be exposed to a highly contagious smallpox patient, addressing sensitive questions of how to hold people, possibly against their will, in case of a bioterror attack. The planning, still in draft form, addresses complex logistical and policy questions, including where people would be kept while waiting for officials to confirm a smallpox case and, if necessary, administer vaccinations."It's not pretty...

Why didn't the Bush administration connect the dots and take aggressive measures before 9/11? For the same reason we're not doing so today: distractions and a lack of urgency. Forget about the blame game — for it's just that kind of distraction. It's more important to look ahead and try to block the next attack. Where are the dots today? One dot is Osama bin Laden's fervent efforts to obtain bio-weapons, reflected in the lab he was building near Kandahar, Afghanistan, to produce anthrax. Another dot is Iraq. Hazem Ali, a senior Iraqi virologist involved in his country's bio-weapons program,...

Toogood Reports [Weekender, June 9, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Psst! The anthrax-laced letters that killed five people last fall, were sent by a home-grown, American terrorist. In fact, the killer — a heterosexual, Christian, white male wacko, if you'll excuse the redundancy — is a scientist who was doing contract work for the CIA, and who murdered five innocents on orders from the CIA. The feds have covered it all up. Pass it on. I know who did it, because Barbara Hatch Rosenberg told me. Rosenberg is not only a tenured professor of microbiology at the New York State...

Article shows how the notion that the anthrax killer was a "home-grown" terrorist was concocted and spread by Marxist professor Barabara Hatch Rosenberg, who stole her theory from a TV series.

Anthrax Theory Emerges Scientists: FBI Questions Suggest Insider Grew Spores At Lab, Refined Them Elsewhere By DAVE ALTIMARI And JACK DOLAN Courant Staff Writers June 13 2002 The FBI is investigating whether the anthrax spores used in last fall's attacks could have been grown secretly inside an Army lab and then taken elsewhere to be weaponized, according to three sources familiar with the ongoing probe. A former government microbiologist, who was interviewed in recent days by the FBI, said agents focused their questioning on the logistics of how someone with access to the U.S. Army's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick,...

Senator Landrieu Possible Exposure to Anthrax Senator Mary Landrieu may have been exposed to anthrax. A researcher at a germ warfare lab tested positive for exposure to anthrax. Low level ammounts were also found in a hallway and office at the facility. Landrieu nd six of her aides toured the facility earlier this week. They are being checked out by a doctor. Investigators don't know how the spores got out of the lab.

USA TODAY - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2001 Page 19A Enemies here threaten food By Richard Berman On the same day America was directly attacked for the first time in 6 decades, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) were taking credit for the burning of a McDonald's in Tucson. ''Make no mistake about it,'' FBI special agent David Szady told 60 Minutes this year, ''by any sense or any definition, (ELF) is a true domestic-terrorism group.'' These homegrown terrorists have not let up since September. Federal agents are investigating a fire and unexploded incendiary devices found ...

Anthrax: Experts fear a widespread attack A single biological attack on the US could cause 10 times more deaths than a nuclear strike, claims a report from an influential think-tank. The Brookings Institution is advising President Bush to concentrate anti-terrorist efforts on thwarting "doomsday" scenarios such as these. The report, "Protecting the American Homeland", to be published on Tuesday, estimated that the greatest threat is posed by widely dispersed smallpox, anthrax or ebola. Doctors expert in the lethal nature and potential spread of such infections helped compile it. It suggests that a nuclear device exploded in a major US city...

No terrorist to date has had success aerosolizing lethal microbial agents WASHINGTON – If you're planning to buy a gas mask, as many nervous New Yorkers already have, you might want to save your money. Despite media noise, the chances of terrorists attacking America with biological weapons are slim, say leading biowarfare experts. And even if terrorists do try to spread lethal microbial agents here, they'll likely fail. What if they succeed? Well, a mask won't do you much good anyway – not unless you wear it all the time. Experts say it's hard to effectively "weaponize" deadly bugs such ...

OSAMA BIN LADEN and his terrorist organisation were not only investigating the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons against the West, they had conducted preliminary experiments on animals. These unnerving revelations are the conclusion of detailed examination of documents discovered by The Times in abandoned al-Qaeda houses in Kabul last month. The documents, which have been translated in full, prove that among other atrocities, al-Qaeda was studying how to produce botulin poison in batches strong enough to kill 2,000 people. The hundreds of pages of photocopied, handwritten and printed matter were in a mixture of Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Mandarin, ...

A federally generated "model" health bill critics say gives governors absolute power in the event of a "health emergency" is steadily progressing through the states, say health and legislative monitoring organizations who are tracking its progress. According to its most recent analysis, the American Legislative Exchange Council – which has been tracking the bill's progress – said most states have either passed or are considering passing the "Model State Emergency Health Powers Act." Sue Blevins, a spokeswoman with the Institute for Health Freedom, agreed, noting that an analysis by her group found a total of 19 states so far have...

Smallpox Apocalypseby Tom HolsingerJuly 22, 2002A major smallpox attack on America would spiral overseas into the greatest catastrophe in history unless we resume preventive vaccinations. The epidemic would probably kill a tenth of the human race. This is, fortunately, unlikely as the perpetrators would gain nothing. America would suffer among the least, while Muslim countries would suffer among the most. Terrorist states and extremist Islam will be annihilated, and not merely at American hands. Smallpox is violently contagious with an unvaccinated 30% fatality rate. Survivors are disfigured. We have just enough vaccine for all Americans, Mexicans and Canadians. Perhaps...

Israeli doctors have discovered a gruesome new way to catch hepatitis and possibly other blood-borne diseases - from the flying bone fragments of suicide bombers. Itzhak Braverman and emergency staff at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera treated 32 victims of one blast. They used CT scans to check for metal fragments in the survivors. In one 31-year-old woman, the scan revealed dense fragments in her neck, breast and groin. But they were not metal. They were bits of bone from the suicide bomber. On a hunch, Braverman sent a fragment to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in...

June 22, 2002 Smallpox Proposal Raises Ethical IssuesBy LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN TLANTA, June 21 — The decision by a government advisory panel to recommend smallpox vaccination for about 15,000 health care and law enforcement workers raises logistical and ethical issues involving not just the people who will get the vaccine but also those who will come in contact with them. If experience from the time when smallpox vaccine was routinely administered to the public is a guide, doctors say, some of the 15,000 "first responders" who receive the vaccine may suffer serious — potentially even deadly — complications. Steps may...

June 22, 2002 Smallpox Proposal Raises Ethical Issues By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN TLANTA, June 21 — The decision by a government advisory panel to recommend smallpox vaccination for about 15,000 health care and law enforcement workers raises logistical and ethical issues involving not just the people who will get the vaccine but also those who will come in contact with them. If experience from the time when smallpox vaccine was routinely administered to the public is a guide, doctors say, some of the 15,000 "first responders" who receive the vaccine may suffer serious — potentially even deadly — complications. Steps...

What should I know about Smallpox? Vaccination is not recommended, and the vaccine is not available to health providers or the public. In the absence of a confirmed case of smallpox anywhere in the world, there is no need to be vaccinated against smallpox. There also can be severe side effects to the smallpox vaccine, which is another reason we do not recommend vaccination. In the event of an outbreak, the CDC has clear guidelines to swiftly provide vaccine to people exposed to this disease. The vaccine is securely stored for use in the case of an outbreak. In addition,...

<p>Washington -- President Bush is asking Congress to create a national research center at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to help protect Americans against biological and radiological attacks -- almost two weeks after the White House proposed transferring nearly all of the lab's budget to the newly proposed Department of Homeland Security.</p>

<p>In a major shift in public health policy that underscores government concerns about bioterrorism, federal health officials are gathering enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate the entire country and are considering a widespread vaccination campaign.</p> <p>By December, according to public health leaders in Washington D.C., the U.S. government will have more than 100 million doses of the vaccine in hand, an amount they say could be effectively diluted to make the shots available to everyone in the country. An inoculation effort using the sometimes risky vaccine would be new to millions of Americans born after the United States stopped offering the shots in 1972.</p>