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Bioterrorism experts are worried that drug-resistant plague could be used as a weapon
Untreated patients with either of these conditions can develop pneumonic plague, the most serious f…
Kevin Loria
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The story behind Netflix's new docuseries on a 'sex cult' that committed the largest bioterror attack in US history
The following is a brief history of the Rajneeshee movement and its controversies, as depicted in N…
John Lynch
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The FDA just approved a drug to treat smallpox in case of a bioterrorism attack - here's why that scenario is so scary
"To address the risk of bioterrorism, Congress has taken steps to enable the development and approv…
Kevin Loria
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How the directors of Netflix's 'Wild Wild Country' unraveled the morally complex story behind a cult famous for sex, Rolls Royces, and bioterrorism
Maclain Way: When we first started, we knew that the sannyasins or former Rajneeshees would be hard…
Nathan McAlone
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An industry-sponsored report claims the US is woefully underprepared for bioterrorism threats, and it's probably right
But Harvey Rubin, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and former member of th…
Tanya Lewis
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China's Creation Of Deadly Super-Flu Could Be A Justifiable Defensive Move
In earlier eras, when China's population was largely stationary and problems related to sanitation …
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RICIN: Here's What The Poison Sent To US Officials Can Do
To capture toxic ricin from castor beans, the protein needs to be separated out from the other plan…
Jennifer Welsh
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Bill Gates shares his 3 biggest concerns about AI
Bill Gates is a self-described optimist about the future of AI. But he still worries about three po…
Sarah Jackson
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AI chatbots helped college students come up with new pandemic pathogens they could spread
Researchers asked students to prompt AI like ChatGPT about starting a new pandemic. The bots gave a…
Gabby Landsverk
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Billionaire CEO of military technology supplier Palantir advocates for AI weapons: 'We must not grow complacent'
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir, wrote a New York Times op-ed advocating for deeper inte…
Will Gendron
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A top antibiotic expert almost died after a gardening cut caused a life-threatening, drug-resistant bacterial infection
The pandemic whistleblower says he could've died if he hadn't demanded a test for his antibiotic-re…
Hilary Brueck
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A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian and Chinese media outlets
An article on the Infowars website claimed the US operates biological weapons laboratories "in many…
Cheryl Teh
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Robert Kadlec, the Trump administration's top official for addressing biological threats, awarded a $2 billion contract to a company he used to advise
Kadlec also helped launch a biodefense startup, East West Protection, with the founder of the compa…
Charles Davis
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Yes, a smallpox vaccine protects against monkeypox, but it comes with its own set of risks
The smallpox vaccine is 85% effective against monkeypox, but it is no longer widely available and i…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce,…
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My mom left me twice to go live in an ashram. Now, as an adult, I am thankful she never took me with her.
The author shares how her mother left her twice, once when she was 6 and then again when she was 12…
Ronit Plank
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What's in the Strategic National Stockpile, the US reserve of life-saving materials stashed in secret warehouses that experts worry isn't big enough
The Trump administration has argued that the SNS wasn't intended to supply states with everything t…
Don Reisinger,Don Reisinger
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Understanding Coronavirus: Two new books to hit the stands in May
While "How Contagion works", a slim read, is a mix of author's moving account of putting up under l…
PTI
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Three-week lockdown reasonable starting point to fight coronavirus in India: former White House official
A three-week lockdown is a reasonable starting point to contain the coronavirus pandemic in a coun…
