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Consortium News
August 30, 2017
Boyle drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention. He said in an ... After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Tulane University School of Medicine “lost years of research,” according to the journal Nature Medicine.
Discover Magazine (blog)
March 31, 2017
Requisitioned from farmers, blitzed with anthrax-laden bombs in the 1940s, and made inhospitable to human and animal life for decades, the tiny Scottish island of Gruinard now serves as home to a flock of healthy sheep and a disreputable monument to the birth of biological warfare. The researchÃâà...
Discover Magazine (blog)
June 28, 2015
The Nuremberg Code was drafted in 1947 following the appalling revelations of human experimentation committed in Nazi concentration camps. The overarching goal of the Code was to establish a set of rules for the ethical conduct of research using human subjects, guaranteeing that the rights andÃâà...
RT
March 2, 2015
The bacteria cause meliodosis, a disease with a 50%-fatality rate even with treatment. Because it's resistant to multiple antibiotics, meliodosis has been researched as a potential biological weapon, though the Tulane lab is said to have been working on a vaccine. “We're taking this extraordinarily seriously.
AllAfrica.com
January 10, 2015
'What we are dealing with here is a biological warfare work that was conducted at the bio-warfare laboratories set up by the USA on the west coast of Africa. And if you look at a map produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) you can see where these laboratories are located.
Daily Press
October 30, 2014
Ken Alibek, who ran the former Soviet Union's biological warfare program before he defected in 1992, told Congress that "vaccines would be of little use. ...... Pam Asa and other researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans say they've found evidence that other lots of the vaccine contained squalene.
The Hill
October 21, 2014
While experts say Ebola would not make the most effective biological weapon, the problems seen in the response to the virus — from confusion over treatment ... Experts say advancements in technology have made it easier than ever before for terrorists to develop biological weapons, with much of theÃâà...
Scientific American
September 25, 2014
The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo—infamous for setting off sarin gas in a Tokyo subway in 1995—also looked into Ebola as a potential biological weapon. In 1992, they sent a medical ... “Ebola is a very lethal pathogenic virus," says virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University. "It's basically weaponizingÃâà...
CBS Local
September 11, 2014
Dr. Cyril E. Broderick Sr. references several “reports” and the 1994 science fiction novel “The Hot Zone” to accuse the U.S. Department of Defense of testing biological weapons under the rouse of administering vaccination to improve health concerns of “black Africans overseas” and secretly attack theÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
August 2, 2014
West Africa: What are US Biological Warfare Researchers Doing in the Ebola Zone? By Jon Rappoport. Global Research ... For the last several years, researchers from Tulane University have been active in the African areas where Ebola is said to have broken out in 2014. These researchers are workingÃâà...
Discover Magazine (blog)
June 11, 2013
Biological warfare has existed for thousands of years: cheap and easy, it is often referred to as the “poor man's nuclear bomb. ... As a proactive, preventative measure against the Japanese's microbiological advances, the US ventured into defensive biological weapons research in 1940 which eventuallyÃâà...