Bioterrorism

In the strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, terrorists unleashed a previously unimaginable level of horror. Now, as the United States finds itself in a new realm where the unthinkable can and does happen, there looms another chilling...

More than 20 people who hold licenses to transport hazardous materials are in federal custody and have become a new focus in the ever-broadening investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, federal law enforcement...

Federal officials widened their probe yesterday into the death of a Florida man from anthrax, acknowledging that they are considering bioterrorism after anthrax spores were found on the victim's computer keyboard and in a colleague. Attorney General John...

The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington have left cities and small towns scrambling to prepare for what U.S. officials say could be the next round of danger: biological or chemical attacks that most rescue workers are ill-equipped to handle....

WASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...

Before Sept. 11, smallpox had been conquered, plague was a chapter in Medieval history, and anthrax was a heavy-metal band. In government, military and academic labs, a few scientists were studying these and other rare scourges that might be used in...

The anthrax spores delivered to a Senate office appear to be concentrated, pure and processed to a minute size that would make them a formidable weapon, government officials said Wednesday, suggesting that the biological attack required sophisticated...

Few people are closer to the center of the national anthrax investigation than Dr. Donald A. Henderson, one of the world's leading experts on bioterrorism, whom Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has called in as a top scientific...

The day the first case of anthrax was revealed, Tommy G. Thompson stood behind a White House lectern and announced that the dying Florida man had swallowed water from a stream, implying the incident was the work of nature rather than terrorists. A...

Trying to reassure postal workers and an anxious public, the postmaster general moved to shore up the U.S. postal system against biological attack -- even suggesting that people should wash their hands after touching their mail. "We're telling people...

An NBC News employee in New York became yesterday the fourth American to be discovered with a rare anthrax bacterium, raising fears that media companies may have been targeted for a biological attack through the mail. The possibility that the anthrax...

Michael Harvey's latest is an odd concoction of crime novel and government thriller — call it a crime novel plus. In this one, Harvey's signature main character, P.I. Michael Kelly, finds himself in the midst of a bio-terror event, one that has...