Word: ricin
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...with at least 15,000 technicians working daily on the world's deadliest pathogens - the vast majority of them for the first time. Though FBI background checks are required for people who handle so-called select agents - a government-drawn list of 73 highly lethal pathogens, such as Ebola, ricin and monkeypox - the vetting focuses on security, not bio-safety competence. Yet most lab accidents are due to simple human error, says Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh. Newbies to the lab are typically indoctrinated to safe lab habits through...
...Russia's secret police, going back to a "toxicological office" that reported to Lenin personally. In the past, the Russians were known to have developed a gun delivering a burst of cyanide gas causing death easy to misidentify as a heart attack, and tiny pellets smeared with the poison ricin, which has no antidote...
...dose was administered, and by whom, remains a mystery. The Litvinenko case revived memories of perhaps the most notorious assassination carried out during the cold war, the 1978 murder in London of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who was working for the bbc. He was killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella while waiting for a bus, in a case that has never been solved. Just as in that Markov case, the death of Litvinenko has already given rise to a flurry of conspiracy theories, including speculation among defenders of Putin's government that the poisoning had been arranged by Russian...
...Litvinenko case revived memories of perhaps the most notorious assassination carried out during the cold war, the 1978 murder in London of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who was working for the BBC. He was killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella while waiting for a bus, in a case that has never been solved. Just like the Markov murder, the death of Litvinenko has already given rise to a flurry of conspiracy theories, including speculation among defenders of the government that the poisoning was arranged by Russian émigrés or Western intelligence agencies to discredit Moscow. But for many...
...formula works with surprising elegance--perhaps because its author, Stella Rimington, is a former director general of MI5 who spent 30 years foiling the plots of baddies from Russia, the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Rimington was the duty officer the night a Bulgarian émigré died of ricin poisoning after being stabbed with an umbrella tip by a Bulgarian secret agent while crossing London's Waterloo Bridge. Poor Liz Carlyle can't help but look like Matlock by comparison...