anthrax

Biological weapons are extremely dangerous, but militaries around the world are developing various methods to counteract these weapons, including vaccines and ways to clean areas affected by biological warfare. Readers explore the development of both biological weapons and the defenses against them.

This book discusses the history of biological warfare from ancient times through the modern era and examines the various types of weaponized organisms.

True-crime author Robert Graysmith offers a definitive case study of the terrorist who spread Anthrax through the U.S. mail in the months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

After September 11, American faced its second attack. A handful of anthrax-laced letters sent through the U.S. mail caused additional deaths, seventeen infections, and a seven-year-hunt for the culprit. Bruce Edwards Ivins, a deeply troubled U.S. Army scientist, was the sole perpetrator of the anthrax attacks. But before Ivins was identified, there was a struggle for control within the FBI's anthrax investigation; the missteps of an overzealous press; and the cadre of senior government officials who disregarded scientific evidence while spinning the attacks into a basis for war with Iraq.

Examines the history, diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment options of anthrax, as well as ongoing research for a way to defend the people of the United States from anthrax biological weapons.

Explains the role medical and scientific detectives played in investigating the spread of Anthrax in the United States in 2001, discussing how they helped in the investigation of the first official act of bioterrorism in America.

Chronicles the events surrounding the anthrax scare that took place in the United States between 2001 and 2002, discussing how failures in judgment and a flawed understanding of the anthrax bacteria's capacity to kill caused the virus to claim the lives of five people and incite panic throughout the nation.

Presents an overview of anthrax that explains what it does to the body, and discusses diagnosis and treatment, the anthrax-laced letters sent in 2001, and an anthrax vaccine.

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.