Word: smallpox
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Within hours of the terrorist attacks, all 1,600 employees at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control--which holds America's last store of smallpox--were evacuated from their offices while the agency's emergency bioterrorism teams were mobilized. Five teams of doctors, nurses and EMTs, including 35 epidemiologists, went to New York City to hunt for strange outbreaks of disease, a sign of a possible biological attack. Within seven hours, 50 tons of medical supplies had arrived in the city. Meanwhile, four other teams of medics had rushed to Washington, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy...
...hopes of addressing these and other questions about anthrax, TIME.com spoke with Jonathan B. Tucker, a chemical and biological weapons expert in the Washington office of the Monterey Institute. Tucker is the author of "Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox...
Extra bottled water 31% 69% Extra food supplies 30% 70% Vaccines for anthrax or smallpox, if available 25% 74% A gun or rifle 22% 77% An electric generator 18% 81% A gas mask...
...masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity asks his security consultant about liquidating assets and burying gold in his backyard. OUTBREAK TRAINING reads the sign on the door of the Iowa Public Health Department. Smallpox? Or chicken...
...masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity asks his security consultant about liquidating assets and burying gold in his backyard. OUTBREAK TRAINING reads the sign on the door of the Iowa Public Health Department. Smallpox? Or chicken...