National Security, One Microbe At A Time

From The Danger Room:

We’ve entered an era where security threats can be hidden in a microorganism and pandemics can be mitigated from a laboratory. Biotechnology means new dangers, whether to personal health, international relations or in combat - but the same technology can also offer new solutions.

World Politics Review has assembled a series of features on national security in the bio-era. Josh Michaud evaluates the recent cooperation among public health officials grappling to contain H1N1. At first glance, the international community did a bang-up job - but emerging diseases are still an ongoing global threat, and the 193 member countries of the World Health Organization haven’t mastered the necessary response.

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My Comment: My brother works in this field. He always gives me chills when he talks about how easy it is for a lab with sufficient funds (a few million) to be able to concoct something terrible.