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Hatfill Files Defamation Lawsuit
July 14, 2004Former U.S. Army biologist Steven Hatfill, who has been publicly named as a “person of interest” in the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks, filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing the New York Times and columnist Nicholas Kristof of defamation by naming him as the likely culprit in the incidents, according to the Washington Post (see GSN, March ...
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NYC Unveils Bioterrorism Detection Lab
July 14, 2004New York City officials yesterday unveiled a renovated bioterrorism detection laboratory, the New York Daily News reported (see GSN, April 14).
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Anthrax Mail Attack Investigation Continues
July 19, 2004Investigators have traveled to three continents and conducted thousands of interviews in their search for those responsible for the 2001 anthrax mail attacks that killed five people, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, July 14).
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FBI Anthrax Investigation Shuts Fort Detrick Labs
July 21, 2004Some U.S. Army high-security laboratories at Fort Detrick in Maryland were closed Friday as part of the nearly 3-year-old investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailing attacks, the Baltimore Sun reported (see GSN, July 19).
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FBI Ends Latest Search of Army Laboratory
July 26, 2004A weeklong FBI investigation of some laboratories at Fort Detrick’s U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been completed, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, July 21).
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Doctors Prepare Checklist of Anthrax Symptoms
July 30, 2004A group of U.S. doctors has prepared a list of symptoms of anthrax infection to help medical personnel determine whether they are treating a victim of a biological attack or someone suffering a natural illness, Agence France-Presse reported today (see GSN, June 14).
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Kazakhstan Opening Laboratory on Infectious Diseases
July 30, 2004Kazakhstan is strengthening its efforts to prevent biological weapons attacks with the opening of a reference laboratory on dangerous infectious diseases and by equipping regional centers that chart the spread of disease around the country, the Kazakh deputy health care minister said yesterday (see GSN, July 16).
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BWC Experts Stress Disease Surveillance Measures
Aug. 5, 2004WASHINGTON — Approximately 450 experts and officials from parties to the Biological Weapons Convention concluded an annual meeting last week in Geneva stressing the importance of strengthening global disease surveillance, investigation and response (see GSN, July 20).
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FBI Searches Car as Part of Anthrax Investigation
Aug. 9, 2004FBI agents Saturday searched a car in Pennsylvania belonging to Kenneth Berry as part of the bureau’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, according to the Associated Press. Last week, FBI agents searched Berry’s home and former apartment in New York and his parents’ summer house in New Jersey as part of the anthrax investigation (see GSN, Aug ...
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Nebraska Proposes Regional Bioterrorism Support
Aug. 12, 2004The governor of Nebraska yesterday announced plans to create a 10-state alliance to respond to potential bioterrorism attacks or other public health emergences (see GSN, March 10).
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Target of FBI Anthrax Searches Loses Job
Aug. 19, 2004The doctor who had his homes searched by the FBI as part of its investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks has lost his job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Aug. 9).
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Kerry Issues Plan to Protect Scientists Who Disclose Information on International WMD Programs
Sept. 7, 2004WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry (Mass.) last week proposed the creation of a program to encourage scientists to provide information on active WMD programs worldwide (see GSN, July 29).
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