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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...   |
Wired
July 2003
Gregg Easterbrook |
We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
Allie Townsend |
Does Fringe's Virus Eradication Plan Hold Up? Is the show's disease from the deep possible? "No," says Dr. William Blattner, director of The Institute of Human Virology. "But it does make for good TV." |
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
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. |
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. |
Reason
August 2003
Declan McCullagh |
Something's in the Air Liberties in the face of SARS and other infectious diseases |
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. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2001
David Horowitz |
The AIDS obstructionists As the AIDS epidemic spins out of control, special interest groups are preventing one of the only things that can work -- mandatory testing... |
Popular Mechanics
February 25, 2010
Scott Pierce |
The Crazies' Franken-Virus Toxins: How Scared Should We Be? The movie never clearly specifies how the disease spreads, and wrings some dramatic tension from that ambiguity, so prospective viewers beware of spoilers below. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006
Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Worldwide Biosurveillance Network Still a Distant Goal Since the anthrax attacks of 2001, the U.S. government's intention has been to create a global disease-monitoring system. |
Popular Mechanics
July 31, 2007
John Galvin |
Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it. |
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... |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Chris Colin |
Poison on the mind Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism? |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004 |
Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic. |
Wired
April 24, 2007
Evan Ratliff |
The Plague Fighters: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Begins Many of the world's most horrifying diseases were caused by animal viruses that made the jump to humans. Now a UCLA scientist thinks he can stop the next pandemic before it even starts. |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Pamela Weintraub |
Be prepared? Taking precautions against bioterrorism may not be as futile as you think... |
Popular Mechanics
February 4, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could a Designer Virus Turn You Into a Monster? In this week's episode of Fringe, a virus turns a man into a monster. Here from experts how much scientific truth and fiction is in this storyline. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Airplane Air As if the fear of terrorism, turbulence or mechanical failure were not enough, airplane passengers still have to contend with the fear of microbial invasion. |
Salon.com
September 12, 2000
Arthur Allen |
The battle over bio-terror A recent report urges America to pour $13 billion into preventing disease-based warfare, but evidence suggests that our fears are misplaced. |
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. |
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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. |
PC World
December 2000
Kim Zetter |
Computer Viruses: The Next Generation What will be the next virulent outbreak? No one knows, except that it's guaranteed to be more lethal than ever... |
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
December 1, 2006
Ben Harder |
Fighting HIV by Building a New Killer In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Jeff Wise |
Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. |
Salon.com
September 26, 2000
Jill Wolfson |
You're an excellent host Parasites can slip into your body, rewrite your DNA and, sometimes, change your mood. Science writer Carl Zimmer's new book, "Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures," introduces readers to some of nature's most sinister characters... |
PC World
November 16, 2000
Kim Zetter |
Freeze! Drop That Download! From toughening laws to making virus writing seem uncool, industry and government are trying everything to stop virus writers... |
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. |
Unix Insider
January 2001
Sandra Henry-Stocker |
Understanding viruses What exactly is a virus, how does it work, and how can you protect your system from one? The author explains the difference between viruses and worms, and why keeping up with and preventing them is so difficult... |
Reason
February 2003
Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
John Carey |
Barring The Door Against AIDS A new generation of drugs focuses on keeping the virus from entering cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease Almost 200 high school students from across the Washington, D.C., area learned firsthand how scientists study the emergence and spread of these and other deadly viruses in December at the 2010 Holiday Lectures on Science. |
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling |
Oil Is Out; Is Nuclear In? Put yourself in an imaginary time machine and set the dial to around the year 2040. The exorbitant price of oil, now at $500 a barrel, has pushed a good chunk of the globe toward nuclear power. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Heart of darkness A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, blowing a hole in the most recent theory about its origin. |
