These are nasty, and a great part of the training for these eventualities involved just surviving them. And of the three, ...

Summarizing information on the state of the art for rendering facilities and the larger environment safe after a biological attack, that report concluded that more information is needed about ...

The ability to distinguish biological from nonbiological particles is important for reducing false alarm rates. By contrast, identification techniques are capable of determining the specific organism ...

Biological weapons spread infectious agents or toxins to kill humans, animals or plants or contaminate a country’s food and/or water supply. They can be deadly and highly dangerous and spread beyond a ...

The exercise focused on the hospital’s ability to identify and treat large numbers of patients exposed to a biological threat, while coordinating between medical teams, emergency services and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The White House is working to strengthen safeguards against biological attacks after staffing cuts early in the second Trump ...

The United States is under biological attack from a genetically modified plague. There is chaos in the streets, bloody corpses strewn on sidewalks, people killing neighbors they believe have the ...

Biological weapons are no longer a Cold War relic, and they cannot be treated only as a public health preparedness problem. “A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrance,” a recent National Defense ...

On the Tuesday, July 28, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Investigative journalist and best-selling author Annie Jacobsen joins USA TODAY's The Excerpt to discuss her new book, “Biological War: A ...

On 9-12 December, the Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Use of Weapons of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) delivered a train-the-trainer course on basic and intermediate ...

Supplies of antibiotics in the Roaring Fork Valley for treating anthrax and other bacterial biological weapons are limited, but should be adequate for an initial response to a small-scale attack. Area ...

German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected jihadist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said. The federal prosecutor’s ...