Interpol seminar examines bioterrorism

ANTHRAX, sarin and threats of other bioterrorism attacks will be the focus of an Interpol conference starting in France today with police chiefs, counterterrorism experts and health officials from around the world.

More than 400 officials from 120 countries will meet in Lyon, where Interpol is based, for what the global police agency calls its first conference devoted to bioterrorism - a looming threat that experts fear much of the world is ill-equipped to handle.