Reasonable Rascal
05-01-02, 12:20
Baltimore Sun
May 1, 2002
Scott Shane
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.anthrax01may01.story?coll=bal%2Dnews%2Dnation
“In an assessment of scientific lessons from last fall's anthrax attacks, a panel of doctors has warned that it might take only a few microscopic anthrax spores to cause fatal disease in some especially vulnerable people. That conclusion, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association by experts from the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, stands in marked contrast to statements made by some public officials and bioterrorism experts last year suggesting
that the necessary dose to cause infection was 8,000 to 10,000 spores. That figure was the estimated number of spores required to kill half of people exposed, but it was often misunderstood as the minimum dose to cause disease.”
May 1, 2002
Scott Shane
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.anthrax01may01.story?coll=bal%2Dnews%2Dnation
“In an assessment of scientific lessons from last fall's anthrax attacks, a panel of doctors has warned that it might take only a few microscopic anthrax spores to cause fatal disease in some especially vulnerable people. That conclusion, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association by experts from the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, stands in marked contrast to statements made by some public officials and bioterrorism experts last year suggesting
that the necessary dose to cause infection was 8,000 to 10,000 spores. That figure was the estimated number of spores required to kill half of people exposed, but it was often misunderstood as the minimum dose to cause disease.”