Word: bioterrorists
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Your excellent detective story about the emergence of avian flu [MEDICINE, Feb. 23] was an important reminder that the most threatening bioterrorist may not be a belligerent Iraqi, a lunatic cult or a white-supremacist group but nature itself. Without warning and with little provocation, nature can deploy an army of rats and mice and an air force of birds and stealthy bats to deliver a swarm of deadly new viruses. All we can do is react to the first casualties of such an attack. EDWARD MCSWEEGAN Crofton...