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> September 28, 2001:
Special Segment: Bioterrorism
Friday, September 28, 2001: Talk of the Nation: Science Friday was
pre-empted this week for ongoing NPR special coverage. Host Ira Flatow
and guests discussed the threat of bioterrorism and efforts to protect
against it.
Guests:
William Broad
Science Reporter, The New York Times
Co-author,
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" (Simon and
Schuster, 2001)
New York, New York
Michael Osterholm
Author,
"Living Terrors : What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming
Bioterrorist Catastrophe," (Delta)
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Professor in the School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
NPR Coverage:
America Transformed
- Office
of Technology Assessment, 1993: "Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction: Assessing the Risks"
- Biological
warfare emerges as 21st-century threat : 1/01
- Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention - Bioterrorism Preparedness and
Response
- New
Scientist | Bioterrorism Special Report
- CB
Arms Control Program
- USAMRIID
- US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- Medical
NBC Online
- Emerging
Infectious Diseases - Volume 4 Number 3 July -September 1998
- Potomac
Institute: Projects - Countering Biological Terrorism
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