Let’s assume, for a moment, that Environmental Decontamination Following a Large-Scale Bioterrorism Attack: Federal Progress and Remaining Gaps is a typical security proviso put together by well-meaning scientists and read by interested parties whose sole concern is that of minimal loss of life in the event of bioterrorism: lines like the following describe the potential [...]
… Labs would be prevented from doing research on high-risk agents if the lab is in violation of security requirements. It would also allow the federal government to suspend federal funding for such labs. Further, the amendment requires the Homeland Security Secretary to notify all agencies providing funding for high-risk research which labs have been [...]
Influenza type A is particularly interesting as the only major virus of humans which quite often and naturally appears to cross species barriers. Several mammals and numerous birds are host to many subtypes of influenza A which, particularly amongst birds, may jump species. Reassortment of genes of an influenza virus from humans with those from [...]
terrorism the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear – terrorism at Princeton WordNet An inundation of epiphytotics represents a far more potent and lasting threat than [...]
“While fourteen thousand lethal doses [of botox] sounds like an awful number, and one imagines the toxin reconstituted from the delivery vial and deposited with great malice into a vat of dressing at a serve-yourself bar, the feat is perhaps not that cut and dried or obviously practical. [Physically], it is a vanishingly small amount, [...]
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” – William Seward Burroughs in “My Own Business” Loss of All Systems Including UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) and Emergency Generators [...]
