1.   All governments have an interest in preventing deadly microbes from being used against civilian populations.

2.   By trying different pills in different combinations, doctors hope to stay one step ahead as the deadly microbe tries to mutate into drug-resistant forms.

3.   If the deadly microbe is, in fact, present in redwoods, it could be catastrophic, even if the mighty trees do not die from the disease.

4.   If nature is attempting to reduce our numbers, what could be a more effective predator than deadly microbes passed on in the act of reproduction itself?

5.   Iraq has already confessed to making enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on earth several times over.

6.   Iraq has already confessed to having made enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on Earth several times over.

7.   No deadly microbes will be used until late-stage testing in sealed government facilities, according to Cynthia Edwards, vice president of research.

8.   Wrapped in a claustrophobic anti-germ suit, he would be trapped in a production maze, caught amid fermenters brewing swarms of deadly microbes.

9.   And supplies of the deadly microbes needed for research are harder to come by.

10.   Colorado Serum has been making anthrax vaccine for many years, he said, using a benign bacillus that is a close relative to the deadly microbe.