Pakistani police recently announced that they are currently conducting an investigation into a package containing anthrax sent to the office of the prime minister in the capital Islamabad. In what appears to be the first reported case of anthrax sent … Read More

The U.S. Army recently confirmed that Lockheed Martin was awarded a six year, $66 million contract to assist in moving the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases into new laboratory space at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The U.S. Army … Read More

A top U.S. intelligence official recently warned Congress that Iran is now more willing to attack the United States and American interests abroad, but said questioned if any terrorist attack on U.S. soil would make use of chemical, biological or … Read More

An explosives unit was recently dispatched to the downtown Phoenix offices of controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the discovery of a suspicious envelope containing a white powdery substance. Arpaio said the envelope was delivered to his home over the … Read More

A South African court rejected an application for a discharge on four charges of professional misconduct submitted by Dr. Walter Basson, a leader of the nation’s apartheid-era biological weapons program. Basson, the former head of the military’s chemical and biological … Read More

Pakistan recently delayed the approval of a bill designed to implement the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention after lawmakers questioned several of its clauses. The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has deferred the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention … Read More

An inquiry into to the conduct of Dr. Wouter Basson, the head of South Africa’s apartheid-era biological weapons program, is set to resume this week in Pretoria, South Africa. Basson, a cardiologist by training, is seeking to be discharged of … Read More

A U.S. public health and law expert recently explained his support for the voluntary moratorium on research into a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza. The two month halt in research is being observed by nearly 40 high-level influenza scientists, … Read More

Ron Fouchier, the influenza researcher at the head of team that created an H5N1 avian influenza strain transmissible in humans, recently decried the controversy surrounding his work, including his decision to support a two month moratorium on similar research. Fouchier, … Read More

The European Union recently initiated partnerships with several African countries aimed at curtailing the illicit trafficking of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. The EU is encouraging the establishment of a collective approach to eliminating the use of biological and … Read More