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North Korea Creating "Poisoned Pens" For Germ Warfare Programme, Says US Report
Biological weapons release disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants. Agents such as anthrax can cause disease and death.
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North Korea Echoes Russia In Accusing US Of Biological Warfare In Ukraine
North Korea accused the United States on Sunday of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing a Russian claim dismissed by the United Nations in March.
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Cannot Conclude COVID Result Of Biological Warfare: Chief Of Defence Staff
The Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday said it was not proper to conclude that the coronavirus is the result of a biological warfare and that there is a need to wait for finding answers about its origin.
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ISIS Anthrax Attack Plot: Medical Intern, Associate Arrested In Kenya
Kenyan police say they have arrested a medical intern and an associate who are accused of being part of an Islamic State group extremist cell of medics attempting to launch an anthrax attack in the country.
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In Letter to UN, North Korea Claims US targeted it With Anthrax
North Korea has accused the United States of targeting it with anthrax and asked the United Nations Security Council to investigate Washington's "biological warfare schemes" after a live anthrax sample was sent to a US base in South Korea.
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Nazis plotted to breed super-mosquitoes to infect enemy, claims researcher
Nazi German scientists secretly planned to breed 'super-mosquitoes' infested with malaria that could be air-dropped into enemy territory during World War II, a researcher has claimed.
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Research on antidote for anthrax
Scientists have doubled up their efforts to develop an antidote for the dreaded disease anthrax, the possibility of which has become a serious threat in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the USA. In an article published in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston have reported identifying a gene in mice t...
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Possibility of biological warfare after US attacks
There is a real threat of increased biological and chemical warfare after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a recent address to public health officials, the head of the WHO warned governments to prepare for the eventuality of biological warfare in case the terrorist atta...
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North Korea Creating "Poisoned Pens" For Germ Warfare Programme, Says US Report
Biological weapons release disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants. Agents such as anthrax can cause disease and death.
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North Korea Echoes Russia In Accusing US Of Biological Warfare In Ukraine
North Korea accused the United States on Sunday of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing a Russian claim dismissed by the United Nations in March.
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Cannot Conclude COVID Result Of Biological Warfare: Chief Of Defence Staff
The Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday said it was not proper to conclude that the coronavirus is the result of a biological warfare and that there is a need to wait for finding answers about its origin.
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ISIS Anthrax Attack Plot: Medical Intern, Associate Arrested In Kenya
Kenyan police say they have arrested a medical intern and an associate who are accused of being part of an Islamic State group extremist cell of medics attempting to launch an anthrax attack in the country.
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In Letter to UN, North Korea Claims US targeted it With Anthrax
North Korea has accused the United States of targeting it with anthrax and asked the United Nations Security Council to investigate Washington's "biological warfare schemes" after a live anthrax sample was sent to a US base in South Korea.
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Nazis plotted to breed super-mosquitoes to infect enemy, claims researcher
Nazi German scientists secretly planned to breed 'super-mosquitoes' infested with malaria that could be air-dropped into enemy territory during World War II, a researcher has claimed.
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Research on antidote for anthrax
Scientists have doubled up their efforts to develop an antidote for the dreaded disease anthrax, the possibility of which has become a serious threat in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the USA. In an article published in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston have reported identifying a gene in mice t...
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Possibility of biological warfare after US attacks
There is a real threat of increased biological and chemical warfare after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a recent address to public health officials, the head of the WHO warned governments to prepare for the eventuality of biological warfare in case the terrorist atta...
