The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where a new outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
Former troops are suing the U.S. government for lost pay and benefits due to the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate.
A U.S. federal court sentenced a Connecticut man to nine years in prison after he admitted to mailing an envelope containing a “white powdery substance” to the White House. He also mailed a letter threatening to kill then President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday updating the U.S. biodefense strategy that he said will “strengthen our nation’s defenses against biological threats to health and safety.”
A new report from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School states that North Korea is building up its inventory of biological weapons, including weaponized strains of anthrax and smallpox designed to cause mass casualties in civilian populations.
Police in Kenya say they foiled a potentially “large-scale” terrorist plot to kill innocent civilians using the biological agent anthrax that was planned by an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked cell of jihadi medics seeking to recruit university students.
As the world turns its attention to nuclear proliferation in Iran, North Korea is denying threats that it, too, is developing weapons of mass destruction.
On Thursday, the North Korean government culminated the celebration of “Struggle Against US Imperialism Month” with a large stadium commemoration of the anniversary of the Korean War. In addition to propaganda significantly more belligerent than its usual fare and praise for communist leader Kim Il Sung and current dictator Kim Jong Un, the nation’s museums were teeming with individuals observing the holiday.
The Pentagon on Tuesday added Britain to the list of countries that received live anthrax samples from the U.S. military. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, said one lab in Britain and another in Massachusetts had been added
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Department of Defense (DoD) lab sent out live samples of anthrax to 51 other laboratories in 17 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Australia, South Korea, and Canada, Pentagon officials told reporters on Wednesday.
The Pentagon had to admit, Wednesday, that it had accidentally sent live anthrax samples to nearly a dozen labs across the country and at least one overseas. They are now working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to contain the shipments.