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| | Anthrax Response Plans Inadequate, Study Warns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The model, crafted by a trio of university researchers, uses medical details from the U.S. anthrax attacks in 2001, data from the former Soviet Union's anthrax program and the latest in "queue theory," which allows researchers to compare outcomes when products (such as pills) are distributed in various ways to people waiting in line. |
 | | Speed is crucial following an anthrax attack because, unlike smallpox, the disease progresses within just a few days to a stage that is nearly 100 percent fatal even with intensive care. |
 | | Thomas Inglesby, deputy director of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, echoed that concern and noted that the study scenario, though not entirely unlikely, is extreme. |
| www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/anthraxresponseplan.html (904 words) |
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