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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...
...anthrax cases prove fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This high mortality rate may result from the deceptive initial symptoms of inhalation anthrax infection, which resemble those of influenza. By the time a correct diagnosis is rendered, the anthrax bacteria may have already released enough toxin to kill a host—rendering antibiotics useless...
...research comes on the heels of a Dec. 2 announcement by Avanir Pharmaceuticals that it is developing an antibiotic that, taken just once before anthrax infection, would both kill anthrax bacteria and prevent anthrax toxin from entering cells...
...never kept the documents that would prove it; that the shell games Saddam played with U.N. inspectors were designed to conceal his progress on conventional weapons systems--missiles, air defenses, radar--not biological or chemical programs; and that even Saddam, a sucker for a new gadget or invention or toxin, may not have known what he actually had or, more to the point, didn't have. It would be an irony almost too much to bear to consider that he doomed his country to war because he was intent on protecting weapons systems that didn't exist in the first...