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<p>WASHINGTON — Thousands of people on O'ahu were exposed to biological material during Cold War-era government experiments, Defense Department officials said yesterday.</p> <p>The material was supposed to be harmless, but the government has acknowledged that people with weakened immune systems could have become sick. Military officials also revealed for the first time that deadly chemical agents, including the nerve agents sarin and VX, were tested on the Big Island, but they insisted that no civilians were exposed.</p>

U.S. scientists have made a breakthrough which they believe could thwart one of the most nightmarish forms of terrorism -- an attack with antibiotic-resistant biological weapons. The scientists, investigating the biowarfare agent anthrax, say they have found a form of treatment that may make it virtually impossible for anthrax germs to mutate into a resistant strain. Similar methods could be used to fight a host of other infections, opening a new approach to the treatment of disease, scientists familiar with the research said. In a paper published in the British science journal Nature, researchers from the Rockefeller University in New...

JERUSALEM, Aug 05, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Israel has begun producing the smallpox vaccine in preparation for a possible biological attack by Iraq if Baghdad were to retaliate for an American strike, a health official said Monday. Enough vaccines have been produced for Israel's entire population of about 6.6 million people but the government has yet to make a decision to begin immunizations, Health Ministry spokesman Ido Hadari said. He would not say when production of the vaccines had begun but said the decision to start had come in light of fears of a possible biological attack...

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...

By Charles Arthur Technology Editor 18 April 2002 Iraqi scientists could turn a smallpox-style disease that infects camels into a deadly weapon, a British researcher says. Camelpox, a non-lethal disease that causes fever and skin rash in camels, has been found to be so similar to smallpox that only a few changes would be needed in its genetic make-up to create a harmful agent. Such a change could happen naturally or be engineered, New Scientist magazine reports today. In 1995, Iraq admitted to UN weapons inspectors that it was working with camelpox with a view to using it as a...