Claas Kirchhelle is an assistant professor of the history of medicine at University College Dublin. Elaine Joy is a medical student at University College Dublin, Class of 2023. Spurious allegations of ...

WASHINGTON — In a Wisconsin courtroom a few years ago, a federal judge and two lawyers faced a bearded, long-haired figure known as the “Mad Scientist,” confronting then what now worries millions of ...

In the new movie Inferno, a super villain attempts to kill billions of humans with a genetically engineered super virus. The good news is that it's just a movie; the bad news is that there are actual ...

Apart from the dark shadow of a mushroom cloud rising above a decimated city there are few threats which have captured the public imagination more than the prospect of bioterrorism. Yet, ten years ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Anderson, R.M. 2001. “The Application of Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease ...

Science is often framed in a positive light, but when it falls into the wrong hands it can do a whole lot more harm than good. This episode is about the historical use of biological agents, the ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

The warning is clear: Bioterrorism is a serious danger to the United States, says the Report Card Grading Government on Protecting the United States, released Tuesday by the congressionally-mandated ...