Bioterrorism

Working Group On Civilian Biodefense Warns Tularemia Could Be Threat

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 8th, 2001

The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, an expert panel convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, says that the highly infectious disease tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, could pose serious consequences if used as a biological weapon.

In underscoring the importance of this issue, the paper cites a World Health Organization study that projected estimates of 250,000 illnesses and 19,000 deaths in the event that a mass-casualty tularemia biological weapon were used against a modern city of five million people.

In this latest report, published in the June 6, 2001,...

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