The medical impact of a bioterrorist attack

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Invisible but deadly microbes wafting silently through the environment until every corner of breathing space is contaminated only happens on the Starship Enterprise, right? Not according to Dr Osterholm, a well-known expert in infectious disease and epidemiology and a member of a task force working to prepare the nation for such bioterrorist attacks. In this article, he describes the realities of an event of this type and summarizes the current state of preparedness.