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...Supported a controversial needle exchange program designed to slow the spread of AIDS, helped boost childhood immunization rates and developed one of the first programs to prepare the public for a terrorist attack using anthrax or other bio-chemical weapons...
...prospect of chemical and biological warfare in this age of anthrax scares and WMD can feel - like the threat of nuclear Armageddon before it - like a uniquely modern terror. But a British archaeologist's recent find offers a reminder that chemical weapons are nothing new - in fact, they are nearly 2,000 years old. Simon James, a researcher at the University of Leicester in the U.K., claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress. James concluded that 20 Roman soldiers unearthed beneath the town...
Early tests had shown that the powder was negative for anthrax and other hazardous material, but authorities were not able to confirm the powder’s chemical makeup for another few days, when final lab results came in, Neely said...
Authorities have determined that the powder tested negative for anthrax, and an e-mail sent to the law school community said "there is no indication that the material is hazardous." But authorities will not be able to confirm the powder's chemical makeup for another few days, when final lab results are in, Neely said...
...includes a stint as a White House fellow in 1997, where he worked with then First Lady Hillary Clinton on health-care reform. In 2001, months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Gupta joined CNN and has since provided on-the-spot medical analysis on news events ranging from the anthrax attacks to Vice President Cheney's heart problems and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004. In 2003 he traveled to Iraq and Kuwait, where he joined the U.S. Navy's medical unit and performed brain surgery on several patients...