George Washington had a problem in the winter of 1777. Smallpox was devastating the already undermanned Continental Army, and much-needed new recruits were being quarantined for a month as a ...

The US has nearly 20 intelligence agencies tasked with protecting its citizens from global bio-terror -- none of which has yet to determine exactly how the ...

If you want to know staphylococcal enterotoxin from streptococcal exotoxin, consider adding the Borden Institute's latest edition of Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare to your nightstand. This ...

A version of this story appeared in the Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each Wednesday. The Pentagon needs to ...

The Joint Biological Tactical Detection System is ready to go into production. It’s been 20 years in the making, but the Army is about to get its first lightweight, low-cost, man-portable defense ...

IN THE WAKE of the terrorist assaults, this country can no longer afford to be complacent about the possibility of biological terrorism. Biological attacks are often dismissed as far-out science ...

War can be the cause of, and the perpetuation of, a public health emergency. The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict is no exception, and warrants a discussion of whether invading a country in the ...

En 2020, una viróloga china huyó a EE. UU., ayudada por aliados del presidente Trump que pretendían promover sus teorías no demostradas sobre los orígenes de la COVID-19. Su esposo sigue sin poder ...

Riley D. Housewright, a microbiologist who led the US biological warfare program during the Cuban missile crisis, died in Frederick, Maryland on January 11, at the age of 89. Housewright retired from ...

It’s full speed ahead for the U.S. Navy’s state-of-the-art capability for detecting biological warfare agents onboard and at sea. Since its initial fielding in 2023, nearly one hundred of the Enhanced ...

A lack of interoperability among inventory management systems has made it impossible for the Department of Defense to guarantee the availability and effectiveness of its stock of chemical and ...

Artificial intelligence computer vision algorithms are under development to automatically recognize the positive CIDAS signal and create a 2D and 3D digital contamination map on the vehicle surface.