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Anthrax is the current focus of the nation's post-Sept. 11 trauma, but it's just one of many potential weapons in bioterrorism's terrible arsenal. How serious a threat are they? Or, for that matter, how deadly are the many other disease carriers, ranging from salmonella to drug-resistant TB strains to "flesh eating" bacteria, that might be unleashed by terrorists? What do they portend for the safety of the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink? Here are a few of the scenarios America may need to be prepared...
...time and in any place. The magnitude and spectacle of last month's terrorist attacks means that children far from New York and Washington may feel "a sense of terror and vulnerability they never experienced before," says Bill Steele, director of the Michigan-based National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children...
...many students as in normal years came to counselors to talk about symptoms of depression and anxiety. Shortly before graduation last spring, a student committed suicide and another attempted it. Christine Hazard, who supervises the district's psychologists, notes that the American Psychological Association's website www.apa.org is distributing trauma information for schools and parents. "They need to have an awareness of the cycle," she says. "There are hard times ahead...
...emotional cost also will be hard to measure as the years unfold. "I'm suspecting that we'll see signs of trauma--anxiety and depression--in kids who went into this with vulnerabilities, who have suffered previous traumas and losses," says Bruce Arnold, a child psychologist who consults at P.S. 234. He says kids who have adequate home and school support, however, will have a good chance of recovering. "They should be given the space to forget about it, have fun and do some familiar things," says Arnold. He discourages parents from sharing too many details of the tragedy because...
...felt by consumer, business, and investor alike before we can move on and start dreaming again about how rich we?ll be next year. The working assumption of the Greenspans of this post-attack world is that the attack part, at least, is behind us. One-time shock, temporary trauma...