Our best weapon against bioterror

The number of U.S. scientists studying anthrax used to be very small, no more than 15 researchers. But after the 2001 anthrax-by-envelope attacks, that changed. Today, the people, money and resources devoted to studying known pathogens like anthrax, botulism and the plague, are increasing dramatically. In fact, the development of vaccines and antidotes to known pathogens has risen in just two years from arcane science to a research darling.

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