A major emergency was declared In Russia after a top secret research lab blew up. One of the world’s largest virus research facilities, located in Siberia has blown up releasing strains of HIV, Ebola, Anthrax, Smallpox and God knows what other viruses into the air. Firefighters and rescue services were scrambled on Monday to respond to a fire that broke out in Koltsovo, a scientific hub several... 

The scale of the Defense Department’s mishandling of the deadly anthrax virus, which has seen live spores shipped to dozens of labs across eight countries, highlighted a “major problem” with the protocols for dealing with such dangerous materials, the Pentagon said. A month-long DoD probe into the root cause behind Utah’s army lab blundering shipments of live anthrax has revealed major lapses... 

At least 22 members of American forces in South Korea may have been exposed to live anthrax spores, which the Pentagon says it accidentally shipped off to a military base there, a report says. The announcement was made by United States Forces Korea (USFK), which is a sub-unified command of United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), on Thursday, Yonhap News Agency reported. USFK said in a statement that... 

A US commission has advised that anthrax vaccination trials be carried out on children. The board gave strict guidelines for testing to put infants at no more than “minimal risk,” but critics accuse them of using children as guinea pigs. The presidential commission described the necessity to test the vaccine on children because in the event of a mass bioterrorist attack a large proportion of the... 

Senator Richard G. Lugar and a Pentagon delegation are on a tour of East Africa to assess American security concerns. The laboratories of Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture, Animals, Industry and Fisheries sit on the top of a quiet hill on a turnoff near the airport, behind an eroded fence. At the end of a hallway is a room with an unlocked refrigerator. That is where the anthrax is kept. Senator Richard... 

Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda's most popular safari destinations. Anthrax has killed at least 83 hippopotamuses in a popular Ugandan game park that saw a similar outbreak six years ago, an official said. Tom Okello, area conservation manager at Queen Elizabeth National Park in south-west Uganda, says 83 hippos are dead. The park, one of Uganda’s most popular safari destinations,...