Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: mBio, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
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Bioterrorism: Lessons Learned Since the Anthrax Mailings
In the fall of 2001, Bacillus anthracis spores were spread through letters mailed in the United States. Twenty-two people are known to have been infected, and five of these individuals died. Together with the September 11 attacks, this resulted in a reevaluation of the risks and benefits of life science research with the potential for misuse. In this editorial, we review some of the results of these discussions and their implications for the future.
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-- Michael J. Imperiale and Arturo Casadevall
- Address correspondence to Michael J. Imperiale, imperial@umich.edu.
In the fall of 2001, Bacillus anthracis spores were spread through letters mailed in the United States. Twenty-two people are known to have been infected, and five of these individuals died. Together with the September 11 attacks, this resulted in a reevaluation of the risks and benefits of life science research with the potential for misuse. In this editorial, we review some of the results of these discussions and their implications for the future.
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- Citation Imperiale MJ, Casadevall A. 2011. Bioterrorism: lessons learned since the anthrax mailings. mBio 2(6):e00232-11. doi:10.1128/mBio.00232-11.
- Copyright ? 2011
- Imperiale and Casadevall. This an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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