The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug intended to treat smallpox — a move that could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were to be released as a terrorist bioweapon or ...

In an effort to prevent bioterrorism attacks, just in case, SIGA Technologies Inc SIGA started working on the smallpox treatment, Tpoxx, after the 9/11 terrorist attack that shook the world. FDA ...

or another virus is used in a bioterrorism plot against the country, said Richard McGarvey, spokesman for the state Department of Health. While an anthrax scare put the country on alert last year, an ...

A federal initiative launched in 2003 to vaccinate healthcare workers against smallpox reached only a fraction of the people it sought. But veterans of the effort say elements of the Bush ...

The Alexandria Health Department has hired an epidemiologist and a staff member to oversee anti-bioterrorism programs. In Loudoun, health workers have developed a plan for communicating with ...

With the threat of bioterrorism looming over the nation, many Americans are wondering whether smallpox will infect them after a 53-year absence from the nation's scene. Eileen O'Neill, a mass ...

The disease was officially eradicated in 1980, but experts are concerned that people could re-create smallpox and use it as a biological weapon. Infectious disease ...

A study of a smallpox vaccine that could prove vital in the United States' war on bioterrorism is under way at Stanford Medical Center. The trial tests the potency of the Dryvax vaccine, a 1970s-era ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment for a ...

As they rush to answer President Bush's call to vaccinate millions of emergency workers against smallpox, state and local health officials say they have stopped virtually all other counterterrorism ...

The anthrax-laced letters mailed in the fall of 2001 infected twenty-three people and killed five—a toll that only hinted at the damage bioterrorism could cause. In a 2001 government exercise called ...