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Bioweapons could catch U.S. cities off guard
By J.R. LABBE

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/987/story/804880.html

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. If America's less-than-rapid response to the H1N1 pandemic is an indicator of how the U.S. public health system would react in the event of a bioweapon attack, we are in deep, deep yogurt, folks.

It's taken more than six months to ramp up production of a vaccine for a contagious disease that health officials worldwide knew was coming.

Fort Worth parents remember all too well the late April decision by school district officials to close all 144 local campuses for more than a week because of concerns about the spread of swine flu.

Wouldn't it have made sense to vaccinate children against H1N1 before school started this fall?

"Sure it would have," said retired Air Force Col. Randall Larsen, executive director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation and Terrorism and author of "Our Own Worst Enemy."

"But there's a problem. There's (just) one facility in the United States making H1N1 vaccine, and it's using the same technology we used 50 years ago."

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A December 2008 report issued by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation and Terrorism concluded that terrorists will be more likely to use a biological weapon than a nuclear one in a future attack on the United States.

As disquieting as it is to hear, the materials to construct a bioweapon aren't difficult to obtain, even in a post-9-11 world.

The level of technological expertise needed to manufacture a bioweapon isn't high, said the "World at Risk" report.

And the materials needed to make such a weapon aren't all closely monitored. Many of the pathogens are readily available - in nature, in sick people and in laboratories.

The key to mitigating the long-term terrorism value of a bioweapon is rapid response, recognition and recovery - and recovery includes having therapeutics available ASAP for those exposed and vaccines to prevent the spread.

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