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WMDNews.org is an outgrowth of CBWInfo.com. CBWInfo.com started its Exanthematous News Service in Jan. 2002 using a single person writing the news from a single machine and uploading it by ftp. It was slow and inconvenient and has been getting in the way of adding other content to the website. CBWInfo.com looked at other solutions, notably looking at a database-driven news service. Unfortunately, CBWInfo's ISP did not support MySQL or any other reasonably useful form of database. Rather than move the site again, we decided to separate the more static factsheet service at CBWInfo.com from the news service and WMDNews was born.
The CBWInfo.com pages about individual agents were intended to cover the main properties and features of agents and to be relatively static concentrating on basic information . Life happens and things change. We could either update individual pages as news about them came in, which would be a very complex process, or create a centralized news page. The news page won.
No. We believe that the information is important enough to be free and it simplifies some of our copyright issues. The service will remain free as long as we can afford to run it. If somebody were to ask us to provide a custom service for a specific purpose, we would probably charge a reasonable and customary fee. Having said that, if you want to show your appreciation for our efforts you can help pay our hosting fees by clicking on the button below. We are also willing to accept site sponsorship.
About 50. We have a slate of web sites that we visit every day to collect news. In addition, if there is something of interest happening outside their area of coverage, we will look for local newspaper sites that are likley to give better reporting.
We'd like to, but there are two limiting factors:
We are covering about as much as we can with the number of people we have on hand. The software allows registered users to contribute to the news stream. If you would like to contribute an hour or two a week looking at newspaper sites outside our present coverage, look at our page on volunteering.
In the case of disease outbreaks, certainly not. There is a very impressive resource that does a much better job on the topic than we could manage, namely ProMed. We never have covered chemical accidents and would be unlikely to do so, but we may add links to resources that do.
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