Bioterrorism Watch Archives – January 1, 2006
January 1, 2006
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Nation readies health care system to respond to nuclear terror
Amid growing concern that terrorists may strike with a nuclear weapon instead of a biological one, the government is fast-tracking programs to develop medical countermeasures against radiological and nuclear threats. -
Infected terrorists could bring bugs across border
A popular plot device in fictionalized accounts of bioterrorist attacks calls for terrorist to infect themselves with an infectious agent and then disperse into populated areas as they become symptomatic. This low-tech attack method has the terrorists, like so many drug mules, carrying a pathogenic payload within their bloodstreams.