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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (126548)7/21/2005 2:11:23 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
My bad......you're right. It was salmonella bacteria. None the less...why couldn't the same thing be done with smallpox.

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How would health authorities discover that a biological attack was underway?
Bioterrorism can be hard to detect, experts say. Environmental monitoring might be able to pick up signs of an airborne release of germs, assuming authorities knew where to look. But an attack could go unnoticed until victims felt sick and visited doctors and hospitals, at which point unusual cases or trends could be spotted. At least one past incident of bioterrorism was believed initially to be a natural outbreak; only a year later did authorities realize that a 1984 outbreak of food poisoning in a small Oregon town that sickened 751 people had been caused by a religious cult called the Rajneeshees, which deliberately contaminated salad bars with salmonella bacteria.

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