A Marrero woman is accused of severely abusing her infant son.

Biological warfare is illegal. Biological weapons have been illegal since the Biological Weapons Convention took effect in 1975. The international treaty prohibits the development, production, ...

Author Annie Jacobsen explains how biological warfare could unfold, why containment is so difficult and what governments can do to prepare.

The United States is under biological attack from a genetically modified plague. There is chaos in the streets, bloody ...

Certifying that a building is safe for reoccupation is a complex process that involves decision making on several factors, including sampling procedures and decontamination methods. The process must ...

The anthrax-laced letters mailed in the fall of 2001 infected twenty-three people and killed five—a toll that only hinted at the damage bioterrorism could cause. In a 2001 government exercise called ...

Concerns are increasing about the possibility of bioterrorism against U.S. civilian and military facilities and personnel. Early detection and warning will play a significant role in minimizing the ...

Biological weapons spread infectious agents or toxins to kill humans, animals or plants or contaminate a country’s food and/or water supply. They can be deadly and highly dangerous and spread beyond a ...

On 9-12 December, the Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Use of Weapons of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) delivered a train-the-trainer course on basic and intermediate ...

German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected jihadist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said. The federal prosecutor’s ...

Taiwan's military conducted a nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) attack response exercise in Hualien on Sunday as part of ...