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Three years ago, a biology lesson about smallpox would likely have centered on health officials’ boast that a worldwide campaign had eradicated the longtime scourge. And a classroom lesson about ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox — a move that could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were to be released as a terrorist bioweapon or ...
Smallpox, though eradicated, remains a concern for bioterrorism. Experts weigh in on the potential risks and current safeguards in place to protect against this threat. In early 1991, several ...
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 ...
President Bush wants a new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. He has also signed legislation devoting $4.6 billion to battle bioterrorism. But the one simple and most important thing that ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved the first drug for the treatment of smallpox, even if the disease has been considered eradicated since 1980. The approval comes in response to ...
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 ...