bioterrorism

Janelle Tenne, having been brought back to life by loner Ben Michaels after being hit by a pickup truck two days before the start junior year, finds a countdown clock while searching her dad's FBI files for clues about how Ben revived her and soon realizes she must figure out Ben's secret in order to save the world.

Shortly after 9/11, virulent anthrax spores sent through the mail killed Bob Stevens, a Florida tabloid editor. Days later, after his death, the discovery in New York and Washington D.C. of letters filled with anthrax, sent shock waves through the nation. More deaths occurred and the FBI began its on-the-ground criminal investigation with advanced bioforensic analyses of the letters' contents.

The 2001 anthrax mailings,which came right after the 9/11 attacks, triggered one of the biggest and most complicated investigations in American history. Sent anonymously from a mailbox in New Jersey, the anthrax contents killed five pople and infected an additional seventeen victims, disrupted the mail, and had everyone concerned that a second terrorist attack was underway. The answer to the question of who was responsible would take years, target an innocent man, and, in the end embarrass the FBI because of its flawed investigative work.

Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.

Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.

Examines several cases of bioterrorism around the world including the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the subway system in Tokyo, Japan.

Presents an examination of the threat of microbial disease and outbreak, and provides discussion of the impact of globalization and population growth on the possibility of a large scale biological event.

Presents a collection of articles from key publications that provides an understanding of the history of global epidemics including AIDS, smallpox, and the Black Death; and describes the various methods used to combat the spread of these diseases.

Baltimore detective Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force and asked to lead an ultra-secret rapid-response unit on a dangerous mission to stop a group of terrorists from releasing a bioweapon that will turn ordinary people into zombies.

Anderson Lake, an employee of AgriGen, works undercover while searching for food items thought to be extinct, and when he meets Emiko, a strange, engineered being, the two work together to survive and find meaning in a decaying world.