Summary
Austin Bay is right, in "Grappling with the bio threat" (Commentary, Friday), to advocate a buildup of U.S. bioterrorism defense. Using airplanes as guided bombs was all but unthinkable until the morning of September 11. We are only starting to take the threat of a biological attack as a serious issue, and even after September 11 it is difficult to imagine what such an attack would look like.
Biological attacks could be aimed at humans, agriculture or the environment. A response and cleanup effort would require a synergy between the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others. Currently, the United States does not have the necessary amounts of stockpiled vaccines to combat a large-scale biological attack on human targets.See the full content of this document
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A Thoughtful Response to an Attack
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