Bioterror
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AP
Timothy Hannon, head of the LEADERS Program, demonstrates
the uses of a bioterrorism warning system in Chantilly, Va. Thursday Jan.
3, 2002. The Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection and Emergency
Response System - better known as LEADERS - reaches into hospitals and
can send fast, automated alerts by scanning electronic records for clues
to a bioterror disease outbreak. If something emerges, LEADERS sends messages
to pagers, cell phones and e-mail accounts.
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Government may offer anthrax treatment
WASHINGTON — If anthrax strikes another American, the government may offer patients an experimental treatment: a protective protein culled from the blood of soldiers who received the anthrax vaccine.
Police don't believe teen sent anthrax letters
FREMONT, N.H. – A teen-ager arraigned on burglary charges Saturday told police he sent an anthrax-laced letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Substance in new Daschle letter is talc
WASHINGTON – The powdery substance in the new threatening letter sent to Sen. Tom Daschle was talc and contained no trace of anthrax, Army scientists and the FBI said Friday.
Thursday, Jan. 3
• Suspicious letter found in Daschle's office
• Teen given probation for anthrax phone threat
Wednesday, Jan. 2
• Web can't sell unproven bioterrorism aids
• EPA: Spores killed in Senate building
Monday, Dec. 31
• EPA completes fumigating Senate Hart office building for anthrax spores
Saturday, Dec. 29
• Anthrax found on N.Y. mail machines
• D.C. anthrax removal in second day
Saturday, Dec. 22
• For anthrax hoax suspects, arrests, charges are no joke
Tuesday, Dec. 18
• Anthrax vaccine offered to Capitol Hill, postal workers
Monday, Dec. 17
• Anthrax probe leads to U.S. source
Sunday, Dec. 16
• Last U.S. smallpox outbreak
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