Plague Wars : The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare

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Summary: Bio-Terrorism and the Media
Review: With the recent arrival of anthrax inthe United States there is growing concern about the threat of biological warfare. Media coverage, however, while voluminous has not often been thorough and thoughtful. In a single crisply written volume, Plague Wars provides the history, production techniques and germ-spreading strategies of the terrorists. The research is startling and the sourcing impeccable.
The book warns that it is very late in the game to start building a defense. It could take years, cost hundreds of millions, and even then immunization and wonder drugs may not be enough to save large urban populations. More distresing, biological organisms may be developed in the next ten or fifteen years against which there is no medical defense.
Toxic attacks more disastrous than the Black Death of the Middle Ages or AIDs in Africa may be ahead. Given the nation's current anxieties, the media's reluctance to deal with such grim prospects is understandable. But as citizens we must be informed to prepare for this challenge.. With virulence now a part of every day life, Plague Wars becomes mandatory reading for facing a terrorizing new reality.