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BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions.   |
National Defense
November 2012
Erwin et al. |
Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice. |
National Defense
March 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Redirects Priorities In Chemical-Biological Defense The Pentagon will broaden the scope of its chemical and biological defense programs, in an effort to prepare for future domestic emergencies, officials say. |
National Defense
September 2011
David C. Ake |
Technology Only a Small Part of Detecting Bioterrorist Threats Perched on rooftops in 30 different U.S. cities are machines that sniff the air searching for weaponized pathogens that could harm the general public. |
National Defense
March 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Chemical-Biological Defense Office To Kick Off Dozens of New Programs The previous decade has seen little in terms of advancement of nuclear-radiological detection devices, and there will be a new push to update them. |
CIO
June 1, 2003
Sarah D. Scalet |
Immune Systems Health officials are working toward a sophisticated IT network that could detect the early warning signs of bioterrorism, but formidable obstacles remain. |
National Defense
June 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Agencies Scramble to Create Vaccine Market Defense and Homeland Security are pursuing disparate vaccination programs to combat different needs for military and civilian populations. |
National Defense
June 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Research Challenge: How to Defend Against Still-Undefined Chemical, Biological Attacks Military scientists are often criticized for not working fast enough and for not pushing technologies into the field more expeditiously. Those working in chemical and biological sciences are no exception. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2015
Patrick Walter |
A shot in the arm It's heartening news that an Ebola vaccine has delivered outstanding results and that a malaria one shows early promise. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Plague fears A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox... |
Searcher
March 2002
Eva Perkins |
Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer What is bioterrorism? Which organizations and governmental agencies publish in this area? Using the power of the beloved Internet, one can easily and quickly access a wealth of information. Here's how to do it... |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 31, 2014
Gautam Mukunda |
Ebola's Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness US health care has just received a critical wake-up call. Risk management tools used to handle normal disruptions are completely inadequate to quell a major catastrophe. |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
An Invisible Threat Commercial buildings are ill-quipped to thwart nuclear, biological and chemical agent attacks, which are excluded from terrorism insurance policies. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic. |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak. |
National Defense
June 2009
Erwin & Magnuson |
7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror. |
National Defense
June 2011
Grace V. Jean |
U.S. Strategy To Combat Bioterrorism Takes Global View The Defense Department has embarked on a multi-hundred-million dollar effort to protect troops from bioterrorism. Its strategy focuses on containing potential outbreaks in areas of the world where pathogens are known to exist. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2014
Maria Burke |
Doctors turn to experimental Ebola treatments The emergency use of an experimental medicine is highly unusual, but the WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Vaccine raises hopes of an end to Ebola A Phase III trial for a candidate Ebola vaccine has shown extremely encouraging results in Guinea, demonstrating complete protection for all those who were vaccinated. |
| AskMen.com |
Swine Flu: The Game Dutch researchers have created a free, online-only game that challenges players to control a new pandemic -- swine flu. |
Salon.com
March 3, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Europe's livestock plague As the British meat market faces yet another crisis, experts at home assess the risk of foot-and-mouth disease in the U.S.... |
National Defense
November 2014
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
U.S. Faces Evolving, Unpredictable Threats With a temporary spending measure for fiscal year 2015 scheduled to expire Dec. 11, Congress must act quickly to replace that with a full-year appropriation and fix the fiscal square corner that defense faces in the 2016 budget. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Why There Is No Available Ebola Vaccine Ebola has the unprofitable qualities of being both relatively rare and infecting a mostly poor population. No pharma company wanted to foot the bill for human trials and production. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development The US Department of Health and Human Services is fast-tracking tests on an Ebola vaccine by providing $5.8 million under a one-year contract with the Maryland-based biotech company Profectus BioSciences |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Most Contagious Diseases Super-contagious diseases spread like wildfire. The best way to battle any of these nasty bugs is to avoid them altogether. Keep your eyes open for these most-unwanted diseases, and stay healthy. |
Wired
January 2006
Thomas Goetz |
The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time. |
CIO
June 1, 2001
Meg Mitchell Moore |
Word of (Foot and) Mouth You don't need a medical degree to know that infectious diseases often spread faster than the warnings that should precede them. But ProMED-mail may change that... |
Chemistry World
January 19, 2015
Maria Burke |
Roadmap to fast track Ebola vaccine development A global group of experts has developed a 'roadmap' to help the health community fast track an Ebola vaccine. |
National Defense
September 2015
Taylor Feuss |
Report: U.S. Vulnerable to Biological Attack "We're going to see the use of biological weapons eventually," said former intelligence officer Asha George, co-director of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Dante Ramos |
Public health vs. private medicine Laurie Garrett, author of "Betrayal of Trust," talks about the policy battle in America that allows disease to spread and people to die. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2015
Tim Wogan |
SiRNA treatment cures Ebola in monkeys The first laboratory trial demonstrating the effectiveness of an experimental drug against the strain of Ebola currently ravaging West Africa has been performed in rhesus monkeys. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2001
Dan Dinello |
Virus horror! In a new era of movies like the Farrelly brothers' "Osmosis Jones," we die from bugs, not bombs... |
National Defense
February 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
U.S. Has Strategy for Homeland Security, But Are We Ready? In October, the White House issued an updated "National Strategy for Homeland Security," which is intended to guide, organize and unify the nation's homeland security efforts. |
National Defense
November 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Local Responders Linked With Coast Guard Units... Russian Horror Highlights U.S. School Security... Public Would Ignore Authorities in Terror Event... Fort Detrick Begins Bio-Defense Additions... etc. |
Smithsonian
January 2005
Paul Raffaele |
Stop the Carnage A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce 'the most serious threat to African wildlife'-the illegal hunting of animals for food. The bushmeat traded by the poachers can also spread deadly diseases, like Ebola. |
National Defense
July 2009 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories 7 Deadly Myth article draws comment. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2014
Jill Wechsler |
Ebola Crisis Challenges Pharma R&D Companies gain support and pressure to deliver new treatments for spreading outbreak. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2014
Maria Burke |
Experimental Ebola drug 'impressive' in animal trials In the hunt for a treatment for Ebola, a new study has shown that monkeys given the experimental drug ZMapp all survived infection with the virus. |
CIO
June 15, 2002
Stephanie Overby |
Stopping Epidemics Early Even before last year's anthrax cases, doctors and public health officials had been testing Web-based databases and other bio-surveillance technologies that could help monitor medical data to stem an outbreak before it spreads. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005 |
Don't Get Bugged This Summer An infectious-disease pro tells how to protect yourself from harmful bites. |
| AskMen.com |
Flu Overhyped? Some Say So The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it. |
National Defense
June 2011
Eric Beidel |
Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare On the heels of anthrax comes a string of deadly agents that scientists also fear can be used as weapons and spread with ease. |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle The vaccine was developed collaboratively by scientists at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and at Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. |
Salon.com
October 17, 2001
Laura Miller |
Our first line of defense An expert on public health talks about what America needs to fight a bioterrorist attack, why we don't have it and how stocking up on cipro is a danger to everyone... |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
The invisible nightmare Biological weapons are not that hard to produce, says a sober new book written before Sept. 11 -- and they're getting easier all the time... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2006 |
U.S. market share lags global growth in homeland security Most of the discrepancy comes from strong demand from three regions -- the European, Indian, and Chinese markets. |
Information Today
August 28, 2014 |
National Library of Medicine Launches Ebola Resources Webpage This webpage will help organizations and individuals who are working to combat the virus in West Africa or those who are friends and family of people in the affected region. |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Chris Colin |
Poison on the mind Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
As Diseases Make Comeback, Why Aren't All Kids Vaccinated? The measles, whooping cough and even polio have returned. Why? Because of a new breed of vaccine deniers who are ignoring campaigns for awareness, and ultimately might live shorter lives. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
