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...THEY WORK? PUR filters trap small amounts of asbestos, atrazine, benzene, MTBE, lead and other chemicals. Not good against bacteria or viruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shopping For Protection | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...planes are designed to spray pesticides in heavy, concentrated streams, whereas bioweapons are ideally scattered in a fine mist over as large an area as possible. The nozzles in crop dusters are best suited to discharging relatively large particles--100 microns in diameter--not tiny 1-micron specks of bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing The Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Oregon's Rajneeshee cult demonstrated in 1984, it is not difficult to set off a wave of food poisonings. Indeed, gastroenteritis caused by natural contamination and careless food handling afflicts millions and results in 5,000 deaths each year. The Rajneeshees considered a number of different viruses and bacteria, including those that cause hepatitis and typhus, but decided for their purposes (disrupting the outcome of a local election) on a strain of salmonella that would be debilitating but not fatal. Salmonella poisonings tend to be localized. With proper hygiene, the bacterium is not particularly contagious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing The Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

PURPOSE: To kill bacteria that may be used in bioterrorism, such as anthrax and plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shopping For Protection | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...President Clinton and 400 officials from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Japan by Bill Patrick, former chief of the Army's bioweapons-development program. Patrick described how terrorists--armed with blenders, cheesecloth, garden sprayers and starter bugs mail-ordered from a U.S. germ bank--could spray enough deadly bacteria in the air intakes of the World Trade Center to infect 25,000 people. If that didn't scare anybody then, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's First Bioterrorism Attack | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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