Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In between the Boston Marathon bombings and the devastating explosion in West, Texas, last week, Americans also heard about the ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

It usually isn’t news to report when something didn’t happen, but in this case, it is worth noting: 2013 ended and there still hasn’t been a terrorist attack on America using weapons of mass ...

Recent events have demonstrated that bioterrorists have the ability to disseminate biologic agents in the United States and cause widespread social panic. Family physicians would play a key role in ...

It took only one anthrax-related death in faraway Florida to convince Lawrence Township district officials that they needed to buffer their Indianapolis-area schools against biological terrorism.

The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated ...

The federal government plays a critical role in achieving national health security by providing strategic guidance and funding research to help prevent, respond to, mitigate, and recover from ...

Outbreak: What a Real Bioterrorism Incident Would Look Like The first day of a bioterrorism event would look like any other day. So would the second, and probably the third and fourth as well.

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Covid-19 was a naturally occurring disease. Here, biodefense expert Dr. Mark Kortepeter explains what scientists look for in determining whether a ...