When the bioterror threat arose, EDS quickly moved mail-sorting off-site to prevent forced evacuations.

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Even regarding smallpox, a disease that is extinct but could be revived as a bioterror weapon, there is good news.

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Antibodies are believed to be more effective than both vaccines and antibiotics at countering bioterror threats such as anthrax and inhalation plague.

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He also charged that Bush has allowed the jobs of thousands of airport security screeners to be cut and has failed to prepare hospitals for bioterror attacks.

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He dressed the funding proposal up in geoengineering language because that was the way to get funds - a tactic scientists in all fields have used down the years in order to ensure their research happens (witness the boom in "bioterror"-related research after the US anthrax scares of 2001).

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