Expert Calls for Stronger Biodefense Mitigation and Response Plans

By Daniel Wasserbly / January 26, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The United States must create a national biodefense strategy and remedy its deficient plans for recovering from a biological terror attack, which technological advances have made considerably easier to carry out, according to industry expert Tara O'Toole. O'Toole, the chief executive officer and director of the Biosecurity Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has served on the Defense Science Board and worked as director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies. "We don't have a biodefense...

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