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During the summer and fall of 1989, several outbreaks of medflies occurred throughout Southern California, particularly in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The outbreaks devastated crops. "The Breeders" (Unresolved) [4] April 1990 Botulinum toxin: 0 0 Japan
The office tracks outbreaks of disease. The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases would be cut by $65 million, or 11 percent. The center is a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fights threats like anthrax and the Ebola virus, and additionally towards research on HIV/AIDS vaccines.
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [1] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
BioWatch is a United States federal government program to detect the release of pathogens into the air as part of a terrorist attack on major American cities. Reportedly operating in Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, DC, San Diego, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Houston, Los Angeles and 21 other cities, [1] the BioWatch program was created in 2001 in response to the ...
1759 North America measles outbreak 1759 North America Measles: Unknown [109] 1760 Charleston smallpox epidemic 1760 Charleston, British North America: Smallpox: 730–940 [110] [111] 1762 Havana yellow fever epidemic 1762 Havana, Cuba: Yellow fever: 8,000 [106] 1763 Pittsburgh area smallpox outbreak 1763 North America, present-day Pittsburgh ...
Assistance with the outbreak of Ebola infections among monkeys imported to Reston (Virginia) in 1990 (→ Reston virus); and; Epidemiological and diagnostic support to the World Health Organization–Centers for Disease Control and Prevention field team that studied the Ebola outbreak in Zaire in 1995 (→ Zaire ebolavirus).
Tied with the Waco tornado as deadliest in Texas history. Estimated F4 tornado. 1902 Trenton, New Jersey Cyclone: August 10, 1902: Trenton, New Jersey – 2 injuries: A destructive tornado, estimated to have been at F1 or F2 strength, tore through Trenton, New Jersey, on a 2.5 mi (4.0 km) path. Walls or roofs were torn off of 100 homes and ...
Dark Winter was focused on evaluating the inadequacies of a national emergency response during the use of a biological weapon against the American populace. The exercise was intended to establish preventive measures and response strategies by increasing governmental and public awareness of the magnitude and potential of such a threat posed by biological weapons.