A new virus on the horizon: How melting Arctic is releasing ancient germs & why it is worryingThis is not the first time that a viable virus has been detected in permafrost samples.
Anthrax outbreak in Kerala's Athirapilly forest: Nothing to worry, says official"Wild boars have died en masse in the Athirappilly forest area. Subsequently, the Health Department, the Animal Husbandry Department and th...
'The Hot Zone: Anthrax' to premiere on National Geographic on November 28The sophomore season of the series is set in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in New York.
"China & Pakistan enter 'secret deal' to expand bio-warfare tools," says an Australian investigative journalistAustralia based investigative journalist Anthony Klan alleged that the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology has signed a covert deal with t...
US military sent live anthrax to lab in BritainThe Pentagon said today that it sent live anthrax to a lab in Britain, one of a growing number of places where the US military mistakenly s...
Pentagon says 26 possibly exposed to anthrax in US, South KoreaThe Pentagon accidentally shipped live samples of deadly anthrax to private laboratories in nine US states and bases in South Korea, forcin...
- West Bengal: 40 persons suspected of contracting anthrax
Superintendent of Bankura Sammilani medical college hospital, Panchanan Kundu, dismissed media reports about anthrax.
How to fix US bio-security leaks? Close some labs"One of the things that we want to do is reduce the number of laboratories that work with dangerous agents to the absolute minimum necessar...
Chhattisgarh's 22 spotted deer didn't die due to anthrax: ReportWith a report of Indian Veterinary Research Institute that the death of 22 spotted deer on January 16 at Kanan Pendari Zoo at Bilaspur wasn...
22 spotted deers die due to anthrax infection in Chhattisgarh zooA day after 22 spotted deer died at the Kanan Pendari Zoo Park in Chhattisgarh, investigations have revealed that the deaths were caused du...
Gentle giants face threat from wormsThe elephant deaths in the Sathyamangalam forest reserve stand out because Tamil Nadu has a reasonably good record in conservation.
- Anthrax fear grips tiger sanctuaries
Anthrax scare has come back to haunt again this summer.
Sunday ET: Why poisons are so popular with mystery writers and spiesThere are no loud bangs or messy blood that would draw attention. And if done with patience there might not be a trace of evidence. Here's ...
- LeT trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction with help from al-Qaida
Arif Qasmani, who was indicted by the US for the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, is helping the India-centric terror group acquire biologi...
- Next generation of airport security to take off soon
Airport security can no longer rely just on conventional screening methods.
- US Army creates team to review security at biolab
The Army has created a team of medical and other military experts to review security measures at the government research laboratory where t...
- Forest dept increases vigil around Gir sanctuary
Gujarat Forest Department has increased surveillance around Gir National Park in Junagadh in the wake of outbreak of anthrax in a village i...