Most hospitals in the city do not plan to vaccinate. Questions of liability and sick pay cause resistance. A majority of Philadelphia's 26 hospitals will not participate in a smallpox vaccination …
U.S. Reports Mounting Guantanamo Suicide Attempts
The Pentagon said on Thursday three more inmates at the detention facility for suspected al Qaeda members and others at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have attempted suicide, bringing the number to 10 this …
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New York City mayor gets smallpox vaccination
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and five city health department doctors received vaccinations against smallpox Wednesday as part of a nationwide plan to prepare for possible bioterror attacks. The …
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PAF Men Told: Secure Clark From Terrorists, Saboteurs
Air Force chief Lt. Gen. Nestor Santillan ordered yesterday some 3,000 Air Force personnel based here to intensify security measures against "terrorists and saboteurs" who might target the Clark …
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Undercover arrest stirs terror rift
Yemeni sheikh held for alleged ties to Al Qaeda splits US, Yemen, Germany. The sheikh was a devout Muslim whose lifelong ambition was caring for the poor in Yemen, one of the world's most …
Pastor aided Rwanda genocide
A pastor in the Seventh Day Adventist Church has been found guilty of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Seventy-eight-year-old Elizaphan Ntakirutimana is the first church …
Congo Ebola Outbreak Confirmed
The government of Congo-Brazzaville has now confirmed that it is the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed the lives of 64 people, in the north of the country near the border with Gabon. The World …
Germany Says Smallpox Report Exaggerated
The German government said Sunday it exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs in an internal report last year that claimed Iraq has smallpox stocks and could use them in germ …
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New Jersey post office closed after powder, mail threat found
Authorities in New Jersey, where at least five anthrax-laden letters were mailed in 2001, closed another post office after white powder fell from a package containing a threatening letter. An initial …
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Science journals to remove information helpful to terrorists
Editors of the world's leading scientific journals announced Saturday they would delete details from published studies that might help terrorists make biological weapons. The editors, joined by …
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