It is the policy of the department to preserve life through lawful, clinical means.

Countering WMD has been a priority for the department in terms of making sure that our future forces are organized, trained, equipped and resourced to deal with all aspects of threats that are posed by WMD.

If you look at what we've done to date, we've nearly doubled our investments in chemical and biological defenses. We've implemented any number of important organizational changes to address the challenges that are posed by WMD more effectively.

It's a situation that is being monitored closely.

They reported back to the World Health Organization (WHO) that they had a possible positive.

I think that you'll see going forward that we'll be further increasing funding for chemical, biological defense programs.