# Bio-terrorism

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[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</span>](http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/floridadoctorfirstclue.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;">: The morning of Oct. 2 (Tuesday, </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">2.15am</span>](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-10-19-0110190228-story.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2001), anthrax was not on the radar of doctors... </span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Annals of Internal Medicin</span>](https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-155-12-201112200-00373)<span style="font-weight: 400;">e: ...(when) a confused and febrile Robert Stevens walked into the emergency department of JFK Medical Center, Palm Beach County, Florida.</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Drs. Larry M. Bush/Maria T. Perez:</span>](https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-155-12-201112200-00373)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> What transpired .. including how public health and federal government agencies performed, has been both praised and criticized. An intertwined epidemiologic and criminal investigation of such magnitude was unprecedented in U.S. history... (</span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientific American:</span>](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/postal-anthrax-aftermath/)<span style="font-weight: 400;">) ...and sparked a massive infusion of research funds ($41 billion) to counter .. bioterrorism.</span>