Word: anthrax
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Under normal circumstances, anthrax toxin is activated when an enzyme called a protease binds to one of its components, called anthrax lethal factor...
Research performed by scientists at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center may lead to the production of drugs to combat the deadly toxin secreted by anthrax bacteria...
...drugs could prove a more effective treatment for exposure to anthrax since current antibiotics combat only anthrax bacteria and not the toxins they secrete...
Where, after all, are the prizes that the West's Mesopotamian adventure was designed to find? The weapons of mass destruction--the thousands of tons of unaccounted-for anthrax and botulinum toxins and all the other deadly weapons we were fighting to destroy in Iraq--have not yet been found. Yes, a great deal of Saddam's WMD infrastructure is there, and his record of deploying them is a matter of history. But the weapons themselves? We haven't found them after months of looking. Bush's fault? If it was, then the fault was shared by almost every Democrat...
...When U.S. soldiers are killed in Iraq, I'm shocked to hear the raucous cry from politicians and ordinary Americans alike for Bush to bring the troops home. Aren't these the same people who panicked at the anthrax scare, who were united by grief after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and who expect their President to find solutions to security problems? Americans must shut up and take the good with the bad. Bush is doing his best to protect the U.S. Americans make me sick when they cry like babies and politicize everything, even national security. They gang up with...