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SOURCE: BioDefense Corporation First Ever Mail Defender(tm) System To Protect From Mailed Anthrax Debuts at Global Homeland Security Conference Today in D.C. New Mail Defender(tm) System Invented and Patented by Michael Lu Who Studied at Harvard and MIT LEXINGTON, MASS - September 24, 2003 /Xpress Press/ - BioDefense Corporation (www.biodf.com) today introduces the world's first defense against mailed anthrax and other biological agents at the 3rd Annual Global Homeland Security Conference. The conference runs September 24 -26 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C. The Mail Defender(tm) will provide protection for government agencies, corporations, and key individuals around...

  Purdue News Purdue biologists receive nearly $18 million to study infectious diseases WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As part of a major U.S. presidential initiative to combat bioterrorism, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a pair of grants to Purdue University researchers to help the group study viruses thought to have potential as biological weapons.While the two grants are to support research projects that are independent of one another, together they will allow Purdue biologists to pursue both basic research on viruses and also speed the development of antiviral agents that could stem from this basic research. Richard J....

NEW YORK: World's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden convened a huge 'terror summit' in Afghanistan shortly after the Saddam Hussein regime collapsed in Iraq, in which he outlined plans to launch "unbelievable" attacks using biological weapons, a media report said on Sunday.At the meeting held in a mountain stronghold in April, Bin Laden said he was working on "serious projects", the latest issue of Newsweek magazine quotes Taliban officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan as saying. "His priority is to use biological weapons," a source, who claimed that al-Qaeda already has such weapons, was quoted as saying. The source insisted he...

  FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETINTerror link to West Nile?Saddam, Castro suspect in spread of mosquito-transmitted disease Posted: August 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com While some Americans are still suspicious about claims that Saddam Hussein had an active chemical and biological weapons program, others believe he unleashed that program on the U.S. in the form of West Nile Virus – now spreading across the U.S. faster than...

A global effort to combat bioterrorism The threat of bioterrorism affects people worldwide. From distant continents to the house next door we're all susceptible to the potential impact of a bioterrorist attack, where the enemy is an unseen biological agent with no known cure. That's why United Devices established the PatriotGrid: A family of research projects designed specifically to identify new leads for cures to diseases that are known to be potential weapons of bioterrorism.

After reading " The Killer Strain ", and a lot of anthrax conspiracy-related material, one hard-to-dispute theory seems to present itself: The anthrax-laden materials found in the envelopes came from our own military research labs.( One specimen Russian microbiologist Alibek examined had gotten soaked prior to examination, and was understandably "clumpy", but the rest was superfine, electrostatically charged,and made in accordance with the Patrick process.) Quite some time before the attacks, there were massive layoffs at Ft. Detrick: the primary repository of this "hot" material. Administrative discipline, according to many reports, had become extremely slack, and, according to a later...

The Continuing Smallpox ThreatBy William Bicknell and Kenneth BloemCato.org | July 23, 2003 The Iraq war is over, no WMD have yet been found and the administration's smallpox plan appears to be running out of steam. Instead of being well on the way to vaccinating up to 10 million civilian health, emergency and public safety workers as called for by President Bush, we are stalled at 37,608. Our message to the nation's health authorities: This is not the time to go wobbly on biodefense.Bioterrorism is a real risk. Smallpox is easy to hide in any freezer and, whether or not...

<p>SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Jurors convicted a computer engineer Thursday of making and possessing ricin, a deadly poison the government considers a biological weapon.</p> <p>The federal jury deliberated for about two hours before finding Kenneth Olsen guilty. Each count carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.</p>

A top federal health official worries that Americans have been "lulled into a false sense of security" about the threat of smallpox, because biological agents have not yet been found in Iraq. The need to prepare for an attack is just as urgent, Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday. Federal officials must work hard to explain this to state and local health officials, who have been slow to get vaccinated against smallpox, partly because they do not believe the virus poses a real threat, she added. "It concerns me very much that...

<p>Instead of running our regular columnists today, we are using most of our space on the Editorial and Op-ed pages to focus on a single issue: bioterrorism. Specifically, we're focusing on how the government is successfully &#8212; and not so successfully &#8212; meeting the security and public health challenges posed by a single terrorist carrying a vial of a biological agent, whether smallpox, ebola or something even more lethal engineered in a laboratory.</p>

<p>The most deadly and menacing attack using a weapon of mass destruction will not begin with a mushroom cloud overhead, horrific, yet instantly identifiable, as a nuclear strike. Nor will it begin with a panic in a subway below city streets, with people choking on a chemical that is unseen, yet unmistakably poisonous peril.</p>

<p>The Iraq war is over, no WMD have yet been found and the administration's smallpox plan appears to be running out of steam. Instead of being well on the way to vaccinating up to 10 million civilian health, emergency and public safety workers as called for by President Bush, we are stalled at 37,608. Our message to the nation's health authorities: This is not the time to go wobbly on biodefense.</p>

Report: U.S. Lacks Bureaucrats to Fight Bioterror WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is lacking a vital resource needed to fight bioterrorism -- bureaucrats -- according to a report issued on Tuesday. The few experts in biodefense are preparing to retire and few people with the right skills have been recruited to replace them, leaving the federal government, and the nation, vulnerable, the report said. "If a major biological attack occurs, as many think it will, the vitality of our biodefense corps will spell the difference between bad outcomes and catastrophic ones," said the report, issued by the nonprofit Partnership...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925952/posts Alert Issued as U.S. Monkeypox Cases Grow to 37     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/925554/posts?page=39#39 Officials Scramble to Contain Monkeypox   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925529/posts Medical Alert (Global SARS Response & Bioterror Preparedness)     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925177/posts West Nile virus crops up early     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924577/posts Identifying A Killer   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/922928/posts New kids' respiratory virusNews 24 (South Africa) ^           http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925789/posts Germ research gets urgent     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924937/posts MYSTERY DISEASE KILLS 19 INDIAN INFANTS     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921908/posts Researchers Discover Possible Diagnosis, Treatment, Vaccine For Mad Cow, Prion Diseases   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916640/posts Cats Likely Source of SARS, Say Researchers (Chinese delicacy likely source of...

There are numerous websites relating to Bio-terrorism-specifically, the anthrax scare: some are left wing,some are anti-semitic,and others just plain silly ! For a good, practical website on this important topic, I suggest: http://www.biohazardnews.net/index.htm This site is in need of volunteers, and, like Free Republic,is privately funded.

West Nile Virus Map - 2002 Terrorist Cell Map-2002

Scientists cheered in 1972 when Congress created the Office of Technology Assessment, a PhD-laden think tank that was dedicated to providing policy analyses and technical evaluations for the House and Senate. They wept in 1995, when, in a burst of political pique and boastful penny-pinching, Newt Gingrich and his Republican Revolution abolished OTA. Resuscitation efforts started then, and continue--in futility. Thus, in the current Congress, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), one of the few scientists in Congress, reintroduced the Office of Technology Reestablishment Act. Like its predecessors, the bill disappeared into the black hole of legislative losers, never heard of again....

Dark Winter: A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpoxBy Dave Duffy   Historically smallpox has been the most deadly of all diseases for humans, killing between 300 and 500 million in the last century alone, far more than the 111 million people killed in all that century’s wars combined. It is easily spread, kills 30% of those infected, and terribly scars and sometimes blinds those who survive. It was declared eradicated from Earth in 1980, but the Soviet Union has acknowledged maintaining a secret biological weapons program since then that employed 60,000 technicians and scientists....

(CBS) Three months into the smallpox inoculation campaign, sources say the government is doing an about-face and will let states stop administering the high-risk vaccine, if they choose, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. That's a sharp contrast to the original rush to vaccinate a half-million health care workers as a frontline defense against a possible bio-terror attack. So far, only 35,000 of the targeted workers have been inoculated. Dr. Brian Strom of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine heads the independent advisory committee that urged the government to slow – or stop – its program. "This is a...

Dec 20, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Examples of omissions from Iraq's declaration to the U.N. Security Council about its weapons arsenal, according to the U.S. State Department: Anthrax and Other Undeclared Biological Agents -A previous U.N. inspection commission concluded that Iraq did not verifiably account for, at a minimum, 2,160 kg (4,752 pounds) of growth media. -This material, still unaccounted for, is enough to produce 26,000 liters of anthrax - three times the amount Iraq declared; 1,200 liters of botulinum toxin; and 5,500 liters of clostridium perfrigens - 16 times the amount Iraq declared. --- Ballistic Missiles...