Bioterrorism: Questions and Answers By CBSNews.com staff CBSNews.com staff January 31, 2002 / 8:43 AM EST / CBS ...

THE UNITED STATES has spent at least $33 billion since 2002 to combat the threat of biological terrorism.

Oct. 26, 2011— -- Some individual clinician will be the key player the next time there's a covert bioterrorism attack, like the anthrax episode a decade ago.

As a bioterrorism agent, ricin has the advantage of being easily made and highly potent. But there have been few fatal cases in the past 50 years, and there is little precise information about the ...

With bioterrorism, the typical instruments we associate with aggression and war are no longer relevant. The source of our fear may be a vial of perfume or a fine white powder—even an umbrella.

Bioterrorism is not new. Fourteenth-century barbarians tossed plague-infected corpses over the walls of fortified cities to spread the deadly infection among their enemies.

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 ...

Reporting from Washington — On its face, it’s just another Washington dispute about money. But a move by House Democrats to strip $2 billion from reserve funds for bioterrorism and pandemic ...

Bioterrorism drills and stockpiles, and even the word “preparedness,” have been recycled from an earlier era of discredited “duck-and-cover” civil-defense drills and fallout shelters that ...

There are examples in history of bioterrorism being used to inflict mass casualties (the colonial British army notably used blankets infected with small pox to decimate attacking Native Americans).

Ned Shaw US scientists have reason to feel both heady and scared. The federal government recently released unprecedented billions of dollars to fund bioterrorism research. Yet, the merits of this ...

More recently, anthrax has been used in bioterrorism attacks in both Japan and the United States. In 1993, a religious cult in Japan deployed anthrax against civilians in Tokyo, but the attack ...