Anthrax

Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged

2013-05-22 15:07:00

WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

U.S. consulate office in China closes after white powder is found

2013-05-14 09:49:00

BEIJING -- A U.S. consulate in China was forced to suspend some operations after an envelope was found containing a suspicious white power. The envelope was discovered Monday by a staffer in the office that issues visas and handles American citizen...

No evidence of ricin at Mississippi suspect's home, FBI testifies

2013-04-22 18:23:00

Paul Kevin Curtis dreamed of conspiracy and was convinced that the government was spying on him -- which it had been, at least a little, since 2007, in the sense that officials occasionally investigated him on suspicions that his anti-government ramblings...

FBI: No signs ricin letters connected to Boston attack

2013-04-17 10:49:00

WASHINGTON – Investigators say there are no signs of a link between the Boston Marathon bombings and potentially poisonous letters sent to the President Obama and a U.S. senator. An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the investigation into the...

Mississippi man arrested, accused in ricin letters case

2013-04-17 17:36:00

OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings....

Martial arts instructor arrested in case of poisoned letters

2013-04-27 14:20:00

TUPELO, Miss. — FBI agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor early Saturday in the bizarre case of poisoned letters sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge. James Everett Dutschke was arrested without incident at his...

U.S. panel: Wait on anthrax vaccine testing for kids

2013-03-19 06:10:00

The federal government must perform more tests on adults before it can ethically move forward with controversial anthrax vaccine trials in children, members of a federal bioethics panel said.� "The safety of our children is paramount, and we have to get...

House investigators seek files related to troubled BioWatch

2013-02-01 00:00:00

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of a House committee probing BioWatch, the nation's troubled system for detecting biological attacks, complained Thursday that administration officials had blocked them from seeing documents held by two senior federal scientists...

BioWatch stands at a crossroads

2012-12-22 00:00:00

WASHINGTON -- Year after year, health officials meeting at invitation-only government conferences leveled with one another about BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting deadly pathogens that might be unleashed into the air by terrorists. They...

Fall Out Boy back in action with new single, album, tour

2013-02-04 13:04:00

Fall Out Boy is back. Ending a three-year hiatus that commenced following a 2009 greatest-hits set, the popular emo-rock band announced Monday that it would release a new album and launch a North American tour in May. "This isn't a reunion, because we...

BioWatch technology couldn't detect lethal germs, tests found

2012-10-22 08:44:00

WASHINGTON — For two years, the nationwide BioWatch system, intended to protect Americans against a biological attack, operated with defective components that left it unable to detect lethal germs, according to scientists with direct knowledge of...

Anthrax

2013-05-20 08:39:00

Anthrax drug

2013-05-19 15:55:00

One of the anthrax-laced letters was sent to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt

2013-05-19 00:00:00