"6 Deadly Bioweapons the US Army Has Fought Since 1969
The Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been helping fight the spread and potential harm from biological weapons for more than 50 years.
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3. Hantavirus
When the U.S. Army saw 3,000 troops in the Korean War suddenly come down with an extremely virulent haemorrhagic fever, officials assumed it was a biological weapon. No evidence of a weapon was ever found, but they discovered a family of diseases called 'Bunyaviridae.'
Hantavirus is the common name for Hantavirus Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, a condition with a 50% mortality rate. Though no vaccine exists, the researchers at USAMRIID recently identified a key receptor that could lead to a treatment."
https://www.military.com/military-life/6-deadly-viruses-us-army-has-fought-1969.html
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"FBI foils anthrax plot in U.S. White supremacist, lab owner arrested by FBI in Nevada; Vials, car taken for testing; Bacillus to be used as terror weapon, say federal charges
PUBLISHED: February 20, 1998 at 12:00 AM EST | UPDATED: September 29, 2021 at 12:01 AM EDT
In a lightning operation involving scores of agents, the FBI arrested two men outside Las Vegas and charged them with obtaining deadly anthrax microbes for use as a terrorist weapon, authorities said yesterday.
One suspect, Larry Wayne Harris, 46, of Lancaster, Ohio, is a microbiologist and white supremacist who is on probation from a 1995 case in which he fraudulently obtained bubonic plague bacteria. He boasted last summer of plans to spread deadly biological toxins in the New York City subway, according to an FBI document.
The other suspect, William Job Leavitt Jr., 47, of Logandale, Nev., owns microbiology labs in Nevada and Germany and is listed in corporate documents as vice president of a Silver Spring health foundation.
Acting on a tip received Wednesday, FBI agents less than 12 hours later swooped down on the two men outside a lab in Henderson, 20 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and seized 40 Petrie dishes and a white cooler. They also seized a beige Mercedes-Benz automobile, sealed it with plastic and took it to a nearby Air Force base for examination.
All the seized items were being tested by FBI and military experts for the bacteria that causes anthrax, a common disease of livestock in developing countries, which has become one of the deadliest weapons in the world’s biological arsenals."
"One evening last summer, Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him how to plan a massacre.
A microbiologist and biosecurity expert at Stanford University, Dr. Relman had been hired by an artificial intelligence company to pressure-test its product before it was released to the public. That night in the scientist's home office, the chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments.
Worse, the bot described in vivid detail how to release the superbug, identifying a security lapse in a large public transit system, Dr. Relman said, asking The New York Times to withhold the name of the pathogen and other specifics for fear of inspiring an attack. The bot outlined a plan to maximize casualties and minimize the chances of being caught.
Dr. Relman was so shaken he took a walk to clear his head"
"CIA accused of secret bioweapon experiments linked to major outbreak in its own people
A biochemist has claimed to have found evidence that the modern Lyme outbreak in the US could have been the result of CIA bioweapon experiments.
Dr Robert Malone, who helped lay the groundwork for mRNA vaccine technology, made the explosive allegations this week after analyzing declassified government documents, historical records from Cold War biological weapons programs and scientific research on tick-borne diseases.
Malone highlighted experiments in the 1960s that allegedly released more than 282,000 radioactive ticks in Virginia and open-air tick research at Plum Island, a federal laboratory located near the Connecticut community where Lyme disease was first identified."