-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:33:46 +0000 From: John Davies To: biowar@topica.com Subject: [BIOWAR] BACKROUND - Misc research results Search of- Anthrax vaccine Y1998 http://nl4.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SR&p_theme=sr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=500&p_text_search-0="Anthrax%20vaccine"&s_dispstring=Anthrax%20vaccine%20AND%20date(1998)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1998&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Article 1 of 1, Article ID: 9802230212 Published on February 20, 1998 FBI BUSTS PAIR FOR POSSESSION OF GERM AGENT ONE SUSPECT IS EX-MEMBER OF ARYAN NATIONS A former Aryan Nations member and a Nevada man are charged in Las Vegas with possessing a deadly biological agent suspected to be anthrax.Larry Wayne Harris, 45, and William J. Leavitt Jr., 47, were arrested late Wednesday by FBI agents who had followed them to a medical clinic near Las Vegas.Federal authorities said Thursday they are not sure whether the two men had an intended target of the germ-warfare agent.Harris, a 45-year-old microbiologist from Ohio, was an Aryan Nations member when he w Complete Article, 1094 words ( ) ---------------- MORE ON HARRIS (Columbus, Ohio - 1998): http://www.populist.com/98.4.anthrax.html (report commentary - in part)...There's another factor the administration forgot about until one day too late, although it's a safe bet everybody in the audience at St. John Arena remembered: A mere 35 miles as the crow flies from Albright's armchair sits the home laboratory of Larry Wayne Harris, "the Plague Man." Since his first arrest in 1995 for possession of the plague virus, Harris has been aggressively peddling his martrydom throughout central Ohio. As a result, Columbusites know exactly what a working bio-war lab looks like. It's the overcrowded kitchen of a white-shingled bungalow three blocks from downtown Lancaster.... (Harris - quoted)..."Everything I told you about biologicals last spring is still true," he told a reporter, "except for one thing. I said the militias didn't have their own biologicals. Now, they do."... (background to this story) Mimi Morris and Michael Weber are investigative journalists based in Columbus. They are associate producers for "The War Within the States," a documentary on the far right anti-government movement currently in development by James Neff Productions for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Reporting for this piece was underwritten in part by a grant from the Dick Goldensohn Fund. ----------------------- MORE ON HARRIS AND ONE OF HIS ASSOCIATES http://www.footballserver.com/newsroom/ntn/nation/022098/nationt_19879_S1_bo... Anthrax suspects Larry Wayne Harris and William Job Leavitt profiled (except fotr the following notes - text removed for brevity) LAS VEGAS (February 20, 1998 3:30 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) -- One is a self-styled expert on germ warfare with a felony record and a high profile among America's right-wing counterculture. The other is apparently a stranger to publicity, living in a remote desert town near Lake Mead with his wife and three children and operating a fire-safety business.... (break) ...The FBI says Leavitt owns microbiological laboratories in his hometown of Logandale, Nev., and Frankfurt, Germany.... ----------------------- http://www.biology.arizona.edu/immunology/cs/cs_3/default.html Case Study 3 Dead Cattle, Bloated, with Epistaxis (There are eight interactive questions and answer in this case study - see what you know (or don't) about b Anthraxcis) (an interesting 8 point case study mentioning, at the end, the Harris/Leavitt case) ----------------------- http://www.salon.com/news/1998/02/20news.html EXTRACT (after Harris arrest): Lead line: The terror at home The arrest of two men in Las Vegas on charges of carrying stocks of the anthrax virus highlights how easy it is to make weapons of mass destruction. And to some terrorism experts, that's a lot scarier than Saddam Hussein. BY JEFF STEIN | Call him Dr. Death. (most text removed for brevity - a specifically interesting part however follows) ...Coincidentally, the Pentagon planned to start making a training film Friday on handling anthrax for local police, fire and medical units. Anthrax is easy to make, the Pentagon found more than 30 years ago, when it conducted secret experiments to see if non-scientists could assemble biological weapons from textbooks and readily available materials, Salon has learned. "There were studies in the '50s and '60s where they took people who were not microbiologists and not engineers that showed they could very successfully carry out things," a government source said. "They had two tasks before them: They had to create a biological weapon, and they had to disperse it. And they could do it." Thomas Dashiell, who in 1988 retired as director of the Pentagon's Environmental and Life Sciences office, said he knew of Pentagon studies in the 1970s that tried to determine how easy it would be for non-experts to manufacture poisonous weapon, based on publicly available literature. "And yes, there was no question about it," Dashiell told Salon. "In fact, there was a report that said, 'Oh, yeah.'" The Pentagon quickly suppressed the study, Dashiell said. "It was an unclassified research effort," he said. "However, the final report was immediately classified, because they did not want to give a cookbook to every terrorist in the country." ... ----------------------- OTHER RESEARCH MATERIALS: Search of- Anthrax vaccine Y1999 http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SR&p_theme=sr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=500&p_text_search-0="Anthrax%20vaccine"&s_dispstring=Anthrax%20vaccine%20AND%20date(1999)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1999&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Article 1 of 1, Article ID: 9910130051 Published on October 13, 1999 NEW ANTHRAX VACCINE STUDIES LIKELY CONGRESS CONCERNED ABOUT RECRUITMENT Congress is likely to order two new studies of the vaccine being used by the military to protect U.S. troops against anthrax.Lawmakers are suggesting the Pentagon is ``less than forthcoming'' when it says reaction to the shots was small and they have no impact on troop readiness.But a joint House-Senate committee has rejected a proposal by U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt that the shots be voluntary until the new studies prove the vaccine is safe.Nethercutt said he proposed the unusual move toward vo Complete Article, 657 words ( ) --------------------- Search of- Anthrax vaccine Y2000 http://nl4.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SR&p_theme=sr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=500&p_text_search-0="Anthrax%20vaccine"&s_dispstring=Anthrax%20vaccine%20AND%20date(2000)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2000&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Article 1 of 1, Article ID: 0004050002 Published on April 5, 2000 SAFETY OF ANTHRAX SHOTS UNCLEAR, RESEARCHERS SAY MANDATORY INOCULATIONS OF TROOPS CAN'T BE JUSTIFIED, NETHERCUTT SAYS Researchers don't know enough about anthrax vaccine to say whether it's safe to inoculate all U.S. troops, a panel of medical experts says in a new report to Congress.The Institute of Medicine reviewed studies of the effects of the vaccine on patients and found the information lacking, researchers said.The institute was hired after Congress backed away last year from a proposal to make anthrax shots voluntary for the 2.4 million troops who were scheduled to receive them over the next five years Complete Article, 919 words ( ) ------------------ Search of- Anthrax vaccine Y2001 http://nl11.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SR&p_theme=sr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=500&p_text_search-0="anthrax%20vaccine"&s_dispstring=anthrax%20vaccine%20AND%20date(last%20180%20days)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=-180qzD&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Article 1 of 2, Article ID: 0110010105 Published on October 1, 2001 Firm prepares for a different kind of war Hollister-Stier aids effort to stockpile anthrax vaccine A Spokane pharmaceutical company is taking on a key role in preparing the U.S. military for possible biological attack by terrorists.Hollister-Stier, along with the nation's only producer of anthrax vaccine, is ramping up efforts to stockpile the vaccine for later use by U.S. troops. Hollister-Stier has been hired by BioPort of Lansing, Mich., to fill at least 40,000 vials of anthrax vaccine per month.Last May, BioPort started trucking anthrax vaccine made in Michigan to the Hollister-Stier labs Complete Article, 1251 words ( ) --------------------- Article 2 of 2, Article ID: 0105300146 Published on May 30, 2001 Spokane's Hollister-Stier gets pact for anthrax vaccine A Spokane company will become the primary order-filler for vaccine against anthrax, considered the world's most dangerous biological warfare threat against U.S. troops.Hollister-Stier CEO Anthony Bonanzino announced Tuesday a long-term contract with a Michigan-based firm to fill anthrax vaccine at the company's north Spokane facility.Hollister-Stier for years has been one of the country's largest producers of allergy vaccines and other allergen products.The anthrax vaccine order is part of the c Complete Article, 486 words ( ) ---------------------- Post to: biowar@topica.com. 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