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Friday, 9 May, 2003, 11:51 GMT 12:51 UK

ANTHRAX ALERT

Latest News

US airports safer but not watertight
Inspectors manage to get one in four weapons past airport security checkpoints as federal staff prepare to take over screening.

New anthrax attack fear

US bio-defence security lax

FBI demands anthrax lab samples

Anthrax tested on London Tube

Anthrax scare at Salt Lake City

PCs recruited in anthrax fight

Anthrax: The story so far

Anthrax-free Senate building reopens

Anthrax at US embassy in Vienna

Bio-weapons talks suspended

Investigators open anthrax letter

US anthrax hoax suspect arrested

Anthrax clean-up in senator's office

US prepares for smallpox attack

Chilean anthrax letter confirmed

US anthrax woman dies

US warning on Iraq bio-weapons

Senate buildings shut in anthrax alert

Anthrax found in more Senate offices

Anthrax culprit 'probably domestic'

Anthrax victim 'kept in the dark'

Move to share bio-terrorism fight

Shopping against terror

US 'hopeful' anthrax scare over

Analysis: Anthrax threat from within

Smallpox fears after anthrax

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE

Using anthrax as a weapon
Anthrax is a biological weapon with a history going back to the First World War and may have been used to kill thousands.

Terror risk to crops examined

Analysis: Threat from disease weapons

Living with bioterror

Britain's 'Anthrax Island'

In the mind of a hoaxer

Q&A: Germ warfare

HEALTH AND SECURITY

Oil industry spray could kill anthrax
Researchers in Austria want to market a disinfectant developed for the oil industry as an anti-anthrax spray.

New anthrax vaccine created

One hour anthrax test

Cost of anthrax attacks 'surges'

Anthrax: Charting the US cases

Websites targeted for illegal Cipro sales

Call to shut US anthrax mailrooms

Mail sterilisation: The options

Tracking the anthrax spore

Anthrax response angers postal workers

Doctors told to be alert for bio-terror

Q&A: Anthrax infection

Anthrax: How do you stop it?

Q&A: The anthrax mystery

Anthrax attack: What to do

Anthrax antidote hope