Sentences with phrase «anthrax attacks»

Since the US anthrax attacks of 2001 there has been no bioterrorism anywhere in the world.

Last fall's anthrax attacks in the United States showed that current schemes for detecting the deadly bacterium carry an unwelcome trade - off: They're either fast but prone to mistakes, or highly accurate but slow (Science, 9 November 2001, p. 1266).

The argument over the US anthrax attacks of 2001 looks set to continue, as politicians begin asking tough questions about the investigation.

A DNA Revolution Heads Indoors Scientists began thinking about indoor environments in a systematic, ecological way in part because of the fall 2001 anthrax attacks [pdf].

The devastation of 11 September and the subsequent anthrax attacks sparked concerns about publishing work on certain pathogens.

That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

«Coming to the State Department shortly after the 2001 anthrax attacks enabled me to focus on bioterrorism and health security issues, to concentrate on the foreign policy implications of these issues, and to take my career in a fundamentally new direction.»

Many school districts across the country have tightened their procedures for handling mail in response to the recent anthrax attacks through the U.S. Postal Service.

While all but one disease outbreak — the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States — emerged naturally or accidentally in the human population, their impact on domestic and international public health has been profound.

Early in the war, the highest US officials, including the president and vice president, encouraged the idea that the anthrax attacks were originating with the bin Laden network.

While they crisscrossed the country, listening to breathless news coverage of anthrax attacks, extremists, and Homeland Security, they faced a much more concrete risk.

The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it.

A New York City postal processing facility that was contaminated during the 2001 anthrax attacks is now the site of the largest «green roof» in Manhattan.

During the anthrax attacks, the Morgan facility was one of 23 U.S. Postal Service facilities to be contaminated, according to a 2004 U.S. Government Accountability Office report.

Among hazards prompting the highest concerns were pandemic influenza, hurricanes, and earthquakes, while the hazards prompting the least concerns were oil spills, anthrax attack, or cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Ebright and others say the rapid growth in the number of federally funded biodefense labs following the 2001 anthrax attacks has only increased the risks of an accidental or deliberate release of an agent.

These individuals have proliferated since 9/11 and the anthrax attacks.

After 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks, worries turned to a bioweapon unleashed by a terror group.

There were the anthrax attacks and the global panic over severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

Since the post-9 / 11 anthrax attacks, researchers have become increasingly concerned that someone less savory — a bioterrorist, for example — could misuse critical details in scientific journals, publications that depend on the free flow of ideas.

In stressing the importance of the prompt naming of a science adviser, Holt reminded participants that former President George W. Bush did not have a science adviser in place at the time of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, nor during the anthrax attacks that followed.

Some members wondered if the proliferation of labs working on select agents not just at CDC but at other agencies and universities since the 2001 anthrax attacks has increased the risk of an accidental release.

Investigators still haven't nabbed a suspect in last fall's anthrax attacks — and the genome project launched in part to help them seems unlikely to provide a break either.

Inhalation anthrax, the much more lethal variety, results only when spores formed by the microbes are dispersed into the air, as happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today unveiled some of the evidence that led the agency to accuse microbiologist Bruce Ivins in the anthrax attacks of 2001, including a pattern of evening visits he made to his lab in the days prior to the strikes.

During the 2001 anthrax attacks, in which someone mailed anthrax spores to politicians and news media offices, 22 people were infected and five died.

I didn't quite appreciate the scale of it until late September, when a refugee from the anthrax attack on the Hart Senate Office building decamped in our conference room and described the cabinets of notes, research, analysis, and draft legislation he had been forced to abandon until the building could be properly flooded with cleansing poison gas.

I dug in on everything from the risk that gasoline tanker trucks could be turned into weapons (there's renewed resonance to this story given the latest terror alerts) to the anthrax attacks and the apparent role of severe drought in contributing to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

«Reporter Tries to Block Daily Fines»: Pete Yost of The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «A former USA Today reporter asked an appeals court Monday to block daily fines levied by a judge who wants her to disclose confidential sources for stories on a scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks.»