Researchers in Australia are reporting development of a portable device to help track down builders of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) — those homemade fertilizer bombs that have wreaked such havoc in terrorist attacks around the world. Their study will appear in the Sept. 15 issue of ACS’ Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.
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A vaccine against anthrax that is more effective and easier to administer than the present vaccine has proved highly effective in tests in mice and guinea pigs, report University of Michigan Medical School scientists in the August issue of Infection and Immunity.
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Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khursheed Kasur stressed that war on terror “can only be won if hearts and minds are on our side.”
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Of all the weapons in the bioterrorist arsenal, none is as potent as botulinum neurotoxin, which causes botulism a potentially fatal disease with symptoms that include severe paralysis of the limbs and respiratory muscles. Just 1 gram of botulinum neurotoxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled, could kill more than a million people, according to a 2001 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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