Fighting Bioterrorism
Fighting Bioterrorism | The Public Is Likely to Respond Well in a Bioterror Attack
Thomas A. Glass and Monica Schoch-Spana both belong to Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Glass works for the school’s Center on Aging and Health and Department of Epidemiology, and Schoch-Spana works for the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies.
Summary: Bioterrorism policy discussions have tended to assume that nonprofessional citizens will be a passive factor or an actual impediment in the response to an attack, but this probably will not be the case. Planners should see mass panic as both rare...
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Table of Contents
- The Bioterrorists: An Overview
- The United States Is Not Prepared for a Bioterror Attack
- The United States Is Committed to Fighting Bioterrorism
- U.S. Agriculture Is Vulnerable to Bioterror Attacks
- Protection of U.S. Agriculture Against Bioterror Attacks Has Been Strengthened
- Deficiencies in the Health Care System Threaten America’s Ability to Respond to Bioterror
- The American Health Care System’s Preparedness for Bioterror Has Improved
- Families Can Prepare for Bioterrorism
- The Public Is Likely to Respond Well in a Bioterror Attack
- Everyone Should Be Vaccinated Against Smallpox
- Individuals Should Decide Whether to Be Vaccinated Against Smallpox
- Only “First Responders” Should Be Vaccinated Against Smallpox
- No One Should Be Vaccinated Against Smallpox
- Scientific Research and Publication Should Be Restricted to Prevent Bioterrorism
- Scientific Research and Publication Should Not Be Restricted
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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