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<p>What would happen if news came out today of Americans being stricken with smallpox, the result of a bioterrorist attack? It's a question that U.S. bioterrorism experts looked at in June 2001, mere months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And the answer was not good.</p>

Dramatic emergency plans to counter a biological warfare terrorist attack on Britain were announced by the Government today. Within the next eight weeks, 12 disaster centres will be set up in London and across the United Kingdom ready to meet an attempt to spread smallpox among the population. In addition, some 700 key medical and Ministry of Defence staff are to be vaccinated against the disease to act as the front line against any attack. The 12 "regional smallpox response groups" will hold supplies of vaccine under guard ready for rapid use. ...

This is a website of the BioSecurity 2002 bioterrorism conference of a broad spectrum of researchers. The site contains paper and information of the material presented at the conference.

Like the US and Britain, Germany is stockpiling vaccines against biological weapons, but the government is keeping mum about the specifics. Since three terrorist suspects were arrested on November 9 in London, the media there have been reporting that the men were preparing to carry out a nerve gas attack on the city's subway system. British officials have tried to reassure the public that no gas was found and that it is safe to ride the "Tube." Getting ready So far, officials in Berlin have had no reason to worry about possible attacks on that city's underground system. The government,...

LAURA MECKLER, Associated Press WriterWednesday, November 13, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/11/13/national1851EST0843.DTL (11-13) 18:46 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is set to give special legal protection for health care workers who will be delivering smallpox vaccines, clearing one of the stickiest issues in the smallpox debate. Under a new provision in the homeland security bill, poised for approval this week, people or facilities that deliver the dangerous but highly effective inoculations would not face personal liability from lawsuits by people injured or killed by the vaccine. Instead, the federal government would defend any suit and pay any damages. Victims...

Smallpox-like symptoms on a woman brought into Cape Coral Hospital on Tuesday prompted the lockdown of two emergency rooms and a fire department and sent health officials scrambling to diagnose the ailment. “At first, smallpox was one of the diseases under consideration,” said Dr. Judith Hartner, director of the Lee County Health Department. “We determined it is a very, very low possibility, but it has not been ruled out.” Hartner said it would take several days to medically discount smallpox as the cause of the patient’s symptoms. Cultures were taken and sent off to a lab. It will take about...

Killing people Posted: October 9, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern Creators Syndicate, Inc. Activists in the environmentalist movement have a callous disregard for people. You say: "What do you mean, Williams? We can't think of a more caring people." First, I'm not talking about sensible people who're concerned about clean air and water. I'm talking about the movement leaders and the politicians they have under their thumbs. Let's look at it. The New York Green Party said in its opposition to pesticide spraying to halt the spread of West Nile disease, "These diseases only kill the old and people whose health...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 — The Bush administration’s top bioterrorism advisers said yesterday they support a voluntary smallpox vaccination program that would begin with 500,000 health care workers, expand to 10 million emergency responders and extend to the rest of the population as early as 2004. IT WAS THE first time high-ranking administration officials acknowledged they are considering offering the risky vaccine to the public prior to an attack and it represented a profound shift in thinking from the June recommendations of a government advisory panel to inoculate about 20,000 medical personnel. “We live in a society that values individual choice,”...

WASHINGTON - She is a middle-aged mom, a cultured woman with a British accent and doctorate who married well, to a general. In a rare picture, she has chipmunk cheeks, thick gray-streaked black hair and cradles a handbag as she squints at the camera from under carefully plucked half-moon eyebrows. Dr. Rihab Taha, 47, is said to be the most dangerous woman in the world. Dubbed Dr. Germ by the press, Saddam Hussein's biological weapons chief has made enough doses of enough lethal germs to kill every human on the planet. Her handiwork is a large part of the reason...

Friday, 4 October, 2002, 10:02 GMT 11:02 UK Doctors warn of bioterrorism risks Doctors warn getting hold of anthrax is 'not that difficult' Doctors are warning about the dangers of bioterror attacks. At a meeting of the World Medical Association in Washington, US, they are warning that health officials need to be on their guard against such an attack - and say terrorists could get hold of biological weapons quite easily. Professor Donald Henderson, senior advisor on bioterrorism to the US government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "At the top of the list is smallpox, followed by anthrax, by...

Iranians have been buying its biotechnology, Senate is told The state department head of intelligence said yesterday that the US had "substantial information" that Cuba was developing biological weapons and exporting dual-use technology, which could be used for germ warfare, to Iran. Carl Ford, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, told a Senate committee that he would only provide the evidence to a closed-door session later in the day, but he insisted that it was convincing. "We feel very confident about saying that they're working on an effort that would give them a limited BW offensive capability. And...

I will apologize in advance for the disorder of these links- they appear here as I grabbed them quickly off the site- but here is what we have on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons ( NBC or ABC ), terror and terrorism, the Islamic Jihad, and related subjects.   Be sure to read ALL the replies, and follow ALL the links within links to get the full picture:     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/759174/posts SMOKING GUN URANIUM-GERMANY WHILE Ritter Stokes Islamic HateAP ^ | 9/29/02 Many, many more links: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/759174/posts?page=306#306 "The mysterious tip-off that led Turkish paramilitary police to the taxi cab, transporting...

Signs of West Nile virus ( news - web sites) have been found in the breast milk of a Michigan woman who appears to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion, and federal officials are now investigating whether West Nile could be spread through breast-feeding. The woman is recovering, and her baby is fine so far, but the new development presents another challenge to scientists as the virus continues its spread. Officials said they didn't want to alarm women about breast-feeding, which has many benefits to babies and mothers and likely won't turn out to be a major way...

Just weeks after two Loudoun County teenagers came down with malaria, county health officials say they've trapped mosquitoes that appear to be infected with the disease. Loudoun Health Director Doctor David Goodfriend says one trap in the Lansdowne area netted mosquitoes that have tested positive. So did a trap in the Broad Run area. Both samples have been sent to the Virginia state lab for confirmation. Goodfriend says it's the first time in more than 20 years that positive-testing mosquitoes have been found in conjunction with a human malaria case in the U.S.  But he stresses there's nothing to indicate...

A SMALL British factory making plastic bottles started an inquiry yesterday into how a cardboard box bearing its name was found at an alleged bio-weapons factory run by President Saddam Hussein. The box was spotted at a chemical plant near Baghdad that is described in Tony Blair’s dossier as a storage centre for biological agent seed stocks. Iraqi officials say that the Amariyah chemical plant has an innocent medical purpose: producing diagnostic material to detect typhoid and blood disorders. The empty box was found in litter piled behind half a dozen huge red silos at the plant, 12 miles south...

Here is a collection of links to information you need about Nuclear, Biological &amp; Chemical Warfare- ABC to us oldtimers. This second thread refines & extracts more links and information you may need. Get it beforehand! Chances of survival are increased by knowledge and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of each class of weapons. It is my hope that those of you who have further knowledge, or links, regarding this will add to it-- and pass it along the 'net. Couple of Good Nuclear War Survival Primers... Couple of Good Nuclear War Survival Primers... You Will Survive Doomsday ...

<p>Alaska has confirmed its first reported case of West Nile virus, in a 77-year-old man from the Chicago suburbs who lies seriously ill in an Anchorage hospital, state health authorities said Wednesday afternoon.</p> <p>The man was bitten by an infected mosquito in Illinois and is not contagious, said officials with the Alaska Division of Public Health. They would not release his name. State officials predicted he will recover.</p>

Here are a few links to basic information about the West Nile Virus currently being so hotly discussed.If you want the more exotic stories- Iraq, Cuba, bioterrorism- use the FR search engine... you'll be unpleasantly surprised! WEB RESULTS   (Showing Results 1 - 51 of 201,700 Matches )    next » Get the Top 10 websites for "west nile virus" 2.  CDC West Nile Virus Home Page - Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) The West Nile Virus Home Page of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. government. 3.  West Nile Virus West Nile...

14th WEST NILE DISEASE DEATH, 33 NEW CASES REPORTED Radio and TV Public Service Announcements Distributed SPRINGFIELD, IL – Thirty-three new laboratory positive human cases of West Nile disease, including the death of a suburban Cook County man, were announced today by the Illinois Department of Public Health. So far this year, Illinois has reported 346 cases of the mosquito-borne disease and 14 deaths.

"We believe the fundamental risk is the more than 100 varieties of birds migrating each year from the North and they can transmit the virus to Cuba," Granma Digital, official Cuban newspaper. Everyone should know that the newspaper Granma would take up this topic only in order to make us think what they want us to think. As I told U.S. intelligence officials in August of 2001, "You see things from the perspective of an elephant that is being bitten by an ant. You don't realize that a mound of ants can eat an elephant." (1) Despite the risk of...