biological toxins

This does not even count other weapons of mass destruction (e.g. biological toxins).

This could be used, for example, to detect chemical and biological toxins in the air via the rat's own sense of smell.

In addition to these living and/or replicating pathogens, biological toxins are also included among the bio-agents.

For this reason, biological toxins like botulin toxin rather than bacteria or viruses might seem more attractive as weapons.

This center, built with Soviet Ministry of Defense funds, used to do research on vaccines and biological toxins.

Other die-offs, also suspected to have been caused by biological toxins, have hit penguins elsewhere.

"Who are these 'others' who will take these nerve agents and biological toxins to America?

The men breathe air that is filtered to remove any radioactive dust, nerve gases or biological toxins.

"They are specific biological toxins."

Any biological toxins it released would be absorbed right through the sinus membranes, into the host's bloodstream."

Every shipment is also subjected to testing by an outside laboratory for such contaminants as insects, lead, cadmium and biological toxins.

Yet Saddam seemed as determined as ever to cling to the most terrible weapons on earth - biological toxins, chemical gases and the nuclear bomb.

The program also purified biological toxins, including botulinum toxin, ricin and aflatoxin.

They outlined the threat in a 63-page report covering everything from a chemical weapons plant under construction in Libya to biological toxins made by Iraq.

Dom said, "A man in a decontamination suit, sent to deal with a spill of chemicals or biological toxins, would wear an airtight helmet."

Biological toxins failed to distribute, staying in metre-wide bubbles, obstinately refusing to succumb to the forces of diffusion.

Water quality can be affected by biological toxins (such as bacteria) or chemical toxicants (such as chlorine).

Dr. Boersma said she got her first inkling that biological toxins might be at work when a freshly dead penguin floated ashore this winter.

The House passed several noncontroversial bills, including one to issue a new class of war bonds and another to make it a crime to handle biological toxins carelessly.

Therefore, voltage-gated potassium channels are targets for a wide range of potent biological toxins from such organisms as snakes, scorpions, sea anemones, and cone snails.

The tissues are sent to the Department of Agriculture Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, which runs tests for viruses, bacteria, biological toxins and pollutants.

Reports of photographic evidence supposedly showing that Iraq tested chemical and biological toxins on prison inmates are inconclusive, United Nations officials familiar with the investigation said today.

There are 13 viruses, 7 bacteria, 3 rickettsiae (micro-organisms that have traits common to both bacteria and viruses), 1 fungus and 12 biological toxins.

The course discusses foodborne illnesses, including information on specific foodborne pathogens and biological toxins, such as shellfish poisoning, contamination, and food allergens.

It began yesterday morning with a sketchy report that two white supremacists harboring plans to unleash biological toxins in New York City's subway system had been arrested.