Word: bioterror
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...spread quickly and cut a wide swath of destruction, the responsibility for coping with the consequences of a possible attack will rest with the country's nearly 7,000 local health departments, which still must train hospitals and physicians in how to spot and treat the symptoms of bioterrorism. "We haven't really gotten stuff done yet," says Tara O'Toole, a biodefense expert at Johns Hopkins University. Government researchers are also playing catch-up: a recent Defense Department analysis found that the U.S. has countermeasures against only a third of the most likely bioterror pathogens. And like Osama...
...impression left by these tours was that Cuba, even if it wanted to traffic bioterror, is too desperately strapped for cash to market anthrax instead of the more lucrative medicines for which countries such as Britain, Brazil - and the U.S. - have been buying up for millions of dollars in hard currency or medical and technical swaps in recent years...
...Jimmy Carter pointed out on Monday during his visit to Cuba, the Bush Administration could give offer him no concrete evidence before he left that Cuba is developing bio-weapons. American politicians who advocate normalizing relations with Cuba say that the White House's accusation of Cuban bioterror, which came just a week before Carter's visit, is simply a means of appeasing anti-Castro Cuban-Americans whose votes carry weight for Bush - especially for his brother Jeb, who needs them to win a second term as Florida governor this year. Carter, at Castro's invitation, inspected the CIGB this...
Carmona became interested in terrorist and biological threats several years ago, lecturing and advising in emergency drills around the country. "He was the first person I know who was preaching about bioterrorism and becoming prepared in case something happened," says battalion chief Les Caid of the Tucson fire department. "He was a voice in the wilderness for a few years." After Sept. 11 he was put in charge of implementing bioterror and emergency-preparedness plans for southern Arizona. That makes him a welcome new team member for a White House that has struggled on homeland security. Carmona will...
...BIOTERRORISM: "Documents recovered from al-Qaeda facilities in Afghanistan," Tenet testified, "show that bin Laden was pursuing a sophisticated biological-weapons research program." A U.S. intelligence official told TIME the CIA and its allies, through interviews and documents, have discovered that bin Laden is "further along than we had believed." This information builds on earlier reports of al-Qaeda camps in eastern Afghanistan that were used for developing and testing chemical and biological weapons, and supports President Bush's planned $11 billion increase in bioterror funding...