Word: smallpox
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...First, the good news: There is no reason to believe anyone has any plans to introduce smallpox into the United States. Now, the not-so-good news: There is no guarantee someone won?t use smallpox against us as a biological weapon...
...have identified a limited number of widely known organisms that could cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers to cripple a city or region. Smallpox is one of the most serious of these diseases." - from ?Consensus Statements of the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense,? published in the 6/9/99 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
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...
...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...