mallei is an essential tool for antibiotic treatment and prophylaxis in the face of deliberate release of this
bio-warfare agent.
With the introduction of nuclear arms and the potential for
bio-warfare, the level of fire-power has taken a qualitative leap, making comparisons with previous wars or military stalemates no longer applicable.
The idea is to continually test the horses and other animals on the property for signs of bio-contamination, train emergency responders and treat infected animals after a
bio-warfare attack or biological emergency.
ALERT: Mr Norris's home, Black Lodge' PORTON DOWN: Staff from
bio-warfare centre will tackle infection site
1 candidate," Shoham continued, "because of its long, common border with Iraq, because a number of Iraqi
bio-warfare scientists fled to Syria before the war, and because Syrian President Bashar Assad had a much closer relationship with Saddam than his late father, Hafez."
The company, which makes products that detect biological weapons, is likely to announce record sales from its
bio-warfare arm as fears about terrorism remain high.
"If [the researcher] worked in a Chinese, Russian, or Iranian laboratory," he says, "his work might well be seen as the 'smoking gun' of a
bio-warfare program."
But school security experts and administrators across the country agree that as the demands of school security increase by the week, with fears of terrorism,
bio-warfare and other attacks, technology is only one of the three main ingredients needed to create the safest schools possible.
While no sane American relishes the thought of an Iraqi regime armed with nuclear or
bio-warfare weapons, the question patriotic Americans must confront is this: Are we willing to send our nation's sons to kill and die on behalf of UN disarmament decrees, which would eventually apply to our own country as well?
Weaponized spores are so small, "10,000 of them are like a speck of dust," says
bio-warfare expert Jonathan Tucker at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, D.C.
The Sunday Express reported in April that a routine audit in the UK Government's
bio-warfare research laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire, revealed that a container of foot and mouth virus was missing two months before the first official outbreak.
Dr Aileen Marty delivered a lecture on the future of
bio-warfare and bio-terrorism to students and staff at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.