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An electronic library on bioterrorism is available with 1,600+ news articles that appeared in this site during two years from October 2001 through September 2003. The information, in a standard printable format free of advertising, is intended for teachers, scholars, students, health professionals and the general public. The site should be especially useful for contemporary historians and others who are interested in issues and events that greatly transformed American priorities and funding following the devastating air attack of September 11, 2001. Please feel encouraged to share this unique news link with interested colleagues.
End of daily news coverage: October 1, 2003
AMERICAN ANTHRAX OUTBREAK OF 2001
POTENTIAL MICROBIAL WEAPONS The most likely biological weapons are the agents that cause anthrax, smallpox, botulism, tularemia, and pneumonic plague. Click here for a summary table. Please note that Hemorrhagic Fever is not included in this table. PUBLIC HEALTH BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
RELEVANT NEWS/COMMENTARY ARTICLES Thoughtful writings in the news media on the public health threat or epidemiological impact of biological weapons and related events. Click here for archives of earlier relevant articles
CURRENT PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLINICAL DESCRIPTION
-Click for worldwide occurrence of anthrax since 1997 Click here for archives of earlier CDC items Anthrax News Stories and Journal Articles Click here for archives of earlier news stories and articles
-Click for worldwide occurrence of smallpox vaccine problems since 2000 Click here for archives of earlier CDC items Smallpox News Stories and Journal Articles Click here for archives of earlier news stories and articles
Botulism News Stories and Journal Articles
-Click for worldwide occurrence of tularemia since 2000 Tularemia News Stories and Journal Articles
Pneumonic Plague
-Click for worldwide occurrence of plague since 1997 Click here for archives of earlier professional items Plague News Stories and Journal Articles Click here for archives of earlier news stories and articles
EPILOGUE
Hemorrhagic Fever
-Click for worldwide occurrence of Ebola since 1996 Hemorrhagic Fever News Stories and Journal Articles Click here for archives of earlier stories and articles
THE SVERDLOVSK ANTHRAX OUTBREAK OF 1979
In 1979, an outbreak of largely inhalation anthrax
occurred in Sverdlovsk, Russia in which 66 individuals were documented to
have died of anthrax and 11 infected persons were
known to have survived. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTHRAX OUTBREAK OF 1957 The only American inhalation anthrax outbreak in the twentieth century occurred in 1957 in a goat hair processing mill in Manchester, New Hampshire. Comprising the outbreak were five inhalation (four fatal) and four cutaneous anthrax cases. Click here for the seminal scientific article on the epidemiological outbreak.
UCLA CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND DISASTERS The mission of the Center is to promote interdisciplinary efforts to reduce the health impacts of domestic and international, natural and human-generated disasters. To view its website, click here. LECTURES AND TUTORIALS Supercourse: Anthrax, Humberto Guerra, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru (mid - 2000) Tutorial: Inhalation Anthrax, US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (October, 2001) Tutorial: Anthrax and Bioterrorism, US National Library of Medicine: (November, 2001) Graph: Anthrax life cycle, Knight Ridder/Tribune (2001) Video Tutorial: Bioterrorism, Washington Post
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This
site provides educational information from the news media on possible biological weapons,
considered in an epidemiologic and public health context. Different from
biologic warfare which attempts to kill, bioterrorism thrives on public
fear, potentially immobilizing or demoralizing a population.
Countering
such fears are public knowledge and purposeful scientific and political action
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