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  • noun Bioterrorism.

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  • noun Activity designed to induce terror using biological techniques.

Etymologies

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bio- + terror

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Examples

  • Lawmakers say they were much better prepared this time around to deal with what they're calling a bioterror attack.

    'The Challenge is to Stay Vigilant' 2007

  • You can never protect completely against any kind of bioterror attack, but you can certainly make the country much more ready to respond in case there is an attack.

    'The Challenge is to Stay Vigilant' 2007

  • Antibiotics: Recently HHS said it had awarded a small biotech firm $27 million to develop an antibiotic that could be used against bioterror threats, plague and tularemia, and also against antibiotic-resistant infections.

    The $6 Billion Bio-Defense Opportunity Chandresh Harjivan 2010

  • It advises the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies about "dual use" research that could serve public health but also be a potential bioterror threat.

    US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies 2011

  • If public health authorities could use vaccines or drugs impregnated on the substrate of a patch, they could treat flu or malaria or leishmaniasis as well as bioterror agents.

    The $6 Billion Bio-Defense Opportunity Chandresh Harjivan 2010

  • If public health authorities could use vaccines or drugs impregnated on the substrate of a patch, they could treat flu or malaria or leishmaniasis as well as bioterror agents.

    The $6 Billion Bio-Defense Opportunity Chandresh Harjivan 2010

  • And we're not finished; vaccines stand as our only chance to prevent pandemic influenza, AIDS, and bioterror.

    Op-eds on vaccines by Paul Offit, MD 2010

  • Scouring the Internet, Foster found an interview that Hatfill had given while working at the National Institutes of Health, in which he described how bubonic plague could be made with simple equipment and used in a bioterror attack.

    The Wrong Man 2010

  • PATIENT ZERO is a first-rate thriller with a bioterror angle that is as horrific as it is plausible.

    PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry – In Stores TUESDAY 2009

  • Foster later tracked down an unpublished novel Hatfill had written, depicting a fictional bioterror attack on Washington.

    The Wrong Man 2010

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