MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Twelve countries of the world are developing "active offensive programs" of a biological nature, First Deputy Health Minister and Russia's chief sanitation doctor Gennady Onishchenko told a news conference at the Interfax main office on Friday.
Biological terrorism can pose a real danger in the world because experts in biological technologies are numerous, recipes for manufacturing biological and germ preparations are readily available and biological terror attacks may look like natural epidemics and infections, he said.
Smallpox, anthrax, plague, botulism, tularemia and various forms of hemorrhagic fever are the most likely to be used by terrorists, Onishchenko said.