biodefense
- n procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents
- Controversial contracts, bureaucratic bungling -- the Fed's biodefense drug program is a mess.
- The FBI itself sent the anthrax letters to Ivins and his colleagues at the biodefense lab for analysis "almost immediately" following the attacks in 2001, confirms Caree Vander .
- The FBI says the government biodefense researcher acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and sickened 17.