(Editor’s note re-printed from Homeland Security Newswire)
The state of public health and biodefense
Published 7 September 2009
There are two bookends to U.S. concern with bioterror attacks on the United States: the fall 2001 anthrax-by-mail attacks, and the December 2007 report by a blue-ribbon commission, headed by former senators Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of [...]

Anthrax looks to be a terrorist’s best friend.  Yet our current national circumstances seems to be preoccupying all of us that there are other, more important, worries for the USA in our short-term future.
Well, I don’t know what a real terrorist thinks about anthrax, but I can share with you what the progressive elite of [...]

By Dr. Neil Livingstone.
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM DomesticPreparedness.com
SPRING 2009
Reports surfaced in early January that approximately forty Al Qaeda members in Algeria died from plague after the deadly bacteria escaped from a surreptitious laboratory where they were attempting to weaponize the disease.  Although there has been no official confirmation that that is exactly what happened, it [...]

May 2009
Terrorists attacking a major city with nuclear or biological weapons is “more realistic” than ever, British officials warned as they lifted the secrecy from six years of counter-terrorism efforts.
Called “Contest,” the U.K. anti-terror strategy contends that new technologies and lawless nations boost the odds of a WMD attack leading to massive death and destruction.
Titled [...]

Faulty gadgets foiling city’s bio-threat project

Wednesday, May 13th 2009,
A pilot program to detect biological threats had to be scrapped because the new experimental gizmos didn’t work, officials acknowledge.
The high-tech monitors were supposed to take air samples and analyze them automatically, compared to conventional monitors where samples are sent to a lab. Federal sources said five [...]

Universal Detection Technology (UNDT.OB), a developer of monitoring technologies, including bioterrorism detection devices, announced that the company is working with the U.S. Department of Commerce to promote its anthrax and other bioterrorism detection equipment in China. Universal Detection Technology is a reseller of handheld assays used for detection of five bioterrorism agents, radiation detection systems [...]

Murtha’s Nephew Got Defense Contracts
Millions in Work Came Without Competition
The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 [...]

Cost of bioterror false alarms, anthrax hoaxes rises
Published 11 March 2009
The U.S. government has spent more than $50 billion since the 2001 anthrax attacks to beef up U.S. defenses against biological attacks; there has not been another attack so far, but the cost of hoaxes and false alarms is rising steeply
In the seven years since the [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA - Universal Detection Technology (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that through its deal with US Department of Commerce’s Commercial Service, it is promoting the Company’s handheld assays, used for [...]

40 al-Qaeda terrorists dead after failed experiment with plague weapon
Published 22 January 2009
40 al-Qaeda members died after being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test; test took place in cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers.
Last month (23 December 2008 HS Daily Wire) we reported that [...]