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MUNICH — Recent advances in technology make bioterrorism a greater threat than nuclear warfare – one that could rapidly wipe out 30 million of even hundreds of millions of people around the world, billionaire Bill Gates says. And the U.S. ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is incapable of dealing with a major influenza pandemic or epidemic despite spending $47 million on preparations, the agency’s own inspector general concluded. An audit found that the department could not even keep ...

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now spread to the United States, but an even bigger nightmare may lay ahead: What if Ebola become airborne? Although the CDC maintains that the Ebola virus is only spread through “close contact” ...

The worst Ebola outbreak in history has reached America’s heartland, as a man in Dallas has been diagnosed with the deadly virus, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) confirmed. The man reportedly caught Ebola in Liberia and flew ...

There could be 1.4 million cases of Ebola by January in just two West African Nations, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to new projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC report based the estimate on ...

The deadly avian influenza (bird flu) virus appears to be spreading between people. Researchers believe that a woman in China caught the flu, or H7N9 virus, from her father and not from poultry. Both the woman and her father died ...

An unknown virus which is spreading across the Middle East has scientists very concerned about a potential global pandemic. Although there are currently only 50 known cases of the Middle East Respiratory Symptom Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the mortality rate is extremely ...

Even preppers with advanced weaponry skills, off-the-grid energy systems, and ample food and water supplies often have one weakness in common – a lack of medical skills. Members of the homesteading, survival, and prepper community frequently spend an abundance of ...