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What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe
Delta
October 2001
232 pages
ISBN: 0385334818
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Non-Fiction
America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare
that threatens all we hold dear....
A deadly
cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a
crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is
infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. coli....
Thousands in a bustling shopping mall inhale a lethal mist
of smallpox, turning each individual into a highly
infectious agent of suffering and death....
Dr.
Michael Osterholm knows all too well the horrifying
scenarios he describes. In this eye-opening account, the
nation's leading expert on bioterrorism sounds a wake-up
call to the terrifying threat of biological attack -- and
America's startling lack of preparedness.
He
demonstrates the havoc these silent killers can wreak,
exposes the startling ease with which they can be deployed,
and asks probing questions about America's ability to
respond to such attacks.
Are most doctors and
emergency rooms able to diagnose correctly and treat
anthrax, smallpox, and other potential tools in the
bioterrorist's arsenal? Is the government developing the
appropriate vaccines and treatments?
The answers are
here in riveting detail -- what America has and hasn't done
to prevent the coming bioterrorist catastrophe. Impeccably
researched, grippingly told, Living Terrors presents
the unsettling truth about the magnitude of the threat. And
more important, it presents the ultimate insider's
prescription for change: what we must do as a nation to
secure our freedom, our future, our lives.
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