News Stories relating to "anthrax"

Here at Unknowncountry, we have always suspected that a single US government scientist was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks. Now, facing arrest and a possible death penalty, a microbiologist who helped the FBI INVESTIGATE the anthrax deaths has killed himself with an overdose of painkillers.

According to BBC News, the anthrax tainted...

The CIA is beginning to assert that the 2001 anthrax attacks were a terrorist plot. This goes against the FBI's accusation that they were a demonstration of our vulnerability to a bioweapons attack that was perpetrated by a U.S. government scientist. The problem is, the anthrax used in the attacks was the Ames strain, which so far has only been...

After two years of digging at Fort Detrick, Maryland, officials have uncovered 2,000 tons of hazardous waste, including over 100 vials of live bacteria and viruses, as well as anthrax, that the military says they didn't know were there. They also found autopsied rats. This is material left over from the U.S. biological weapons program. "When...

An Arizona man caught anthrax from a wool rug imported from Turkey, according to the Department of Health Services. This is cutaneous anthrax, the kind that causes skin lesions, and it?s easily cured with antibiotics. It's the powdered kind that's inhaled that has killed several people in terrorist attacks.

"He may have been exposed...

As we reported on August 1st, FBI agents have searched theapartment of former Fort Detrick scientist Steven Hatfillfor the second time, on suspicion that he may be the anthraxterrorist. So why don't they arrest him? We think it'sbecause he can reveal that the U.S. violated the civilrights of black citizens in a country that was fighting...

If you had a smallpox vaccination as a child and think you?re still protected, it?s not true. Almost everyone vaccinated before smallpox was eradicated in the mid-1970s has now lost their immunity.

621 microbiologists in Maryland received fresh vaccinations between 1994 and 2001 to protect them in their work. Before they had the shots,...

Eleven microbiologists have mysteriously died over the span of five months. Some of them were world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others were the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others were experts in bioterrorism.

The first three died in the space of...

Lena H. Sun reports in the Washington Post that six months after inhaling anthrax spores, several of the mail workers who survived the deadly disease have yet to make a full recovery and are experiencing serious fatigue and memory loss.

In interviews with five of the six survivors of inhalational anthrax, four reported frequent...

On the English T.V. show Newsnight, reporter Susan Watts and Milton Leitenberg, of the Center for International & Security Studies at the University of Maryland, interviewed Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, of the Federation of American Scientists. Rosenberg recently publicly stated that the U.S. government knows the identity of the anthrax terrorist...

Post offices are using irradiation to protect against anthrax contamination. Postal workers who handle the irradiated mail have reported health problems, their union leaders say.

At least 87 of about 750 workers at the Gaithersburg, Maryland, postal facility have reported problems, says Tammy Thompson, president of the Montgomery County...

Officials at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah say U.S. Army scientists have produced dry anthrax powder in recent years, according to reports in The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. The statement from Dugway did not specify which strain of anthrax was produced there, but the Post, citing government officials and shipping...

The New York Times reports that Federal health officials confirmed the presence of anthrax in a letter sent to a pediatrician in Chile from Florida. But it was not the strain that killed five Americans. U.S. disease control officials say the anthrax is similar to strains that have been found in Turkey.

Did five people have to die because US biological weapon researchers wanted to receive more money for their work? Greenpeace magazine feels this dreadful assumption may be likely, based on statements from members of a U.S. government delegation.

During the UN bioweapons conference taking place at present in Geneva, the participants of...

The government is warning websites to stop selling unproven treatments for anthrax, smallpox and bioterrorism agents. The treatments include dietary supplements such as oregano oil and zinc mineral water. The Federal Trade Commission says there?s no scientific evidence that any of these alternative treatments work.

The FTC has sent e-...