Is biotech a security problem?
Category: Bioterrorism
A bioterrorist around every corner?
Posted by revere at 7:05 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Bioterrorism:
Ebola and the henhouse
Category: Bioterrorism
Did an experimental vaccine save a lab worker who stuck herself with a needle containing Ebola?
Posted by revere at 8:57 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Organized public health: bland and toothless
Category: Bioterrorism
Public health on the margins.
Posted by revere at 2:01 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The anthrax attacks: the FBI's incurable disease
Category: Anthrax
Another one of the FBI's slam dunks.
Posted by revere at 7:48 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fort Detrick stands up by standing down
Category: Bioterrorism
Failing our lab tests.
Posted by revere at 7:37 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nanothinking at NIH
Category: NIH
Don't forget to leave the stall door open.
Posted by revere at 7:05 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Worthless advice on bioterrorism to the new administration
Category: Bioterrorism
The Defense Science Board offers their wisdom. Yawn.
Posted by revere at 7:18 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Galveston high security laboratory: dumb and dumber
Category: Bioterrorism
A high containment lab in hurricane alley
Posted by revere at 7:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bird flu bird brains and Bush brains
Category: Bird flu
Really, really dumb. No, that's too kind.
Posted by revere at 3:40 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why would any sane person put a Level 4 biodefense lab in Galveston?
Category: Bioterrorism
I guess they have flood insurance.
Posted by revere at 7:16 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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