Cover: John Singer Sargent.
Gassed (1919). Reprinted with permission of the Imperial War Museum, London.
About the First National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism ........................ 491
Bioterrorism: How Prepared Are We?...........................................................492
The Emerging Threat of Bioterrorism .........494
View from the Hill: Congressional Efforts to Address Bioterrorism ....................496
Finding the Right Balance againstBioterrorism ...................................................497
Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism: An Empirical Analysis ...................................498
The Threat of Biological Attack: WhyConcern Now? ................................................505
Nuclear Blindness: An Overview of the Biological Weapons Programs of the Former Soviet Union and Iraq ............509
Once and Future Threat? ............................................................513
The Prospect of Domestic Bioterrorism ........517
Potential Biological Weapons Threats ..........523
Epidemiology of Bioterrorism .......................528
Vaccines in Civilian Defense Against Bioterrorism ...................................................531
Vaccines, Pharmaceutical Products, and Bioterrorism: Challenges for theU.S. Food and Drug Administration ............534
Cytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 in Wales, 1990 to 1998 ......... 566
A Focus of Deer Tick Virus Transmission in the Northcentral United States ................... 570
Dengue Reemergence in Argentina ..................... 575
Chlorine Disinfection of Recreational Water for Cryptosporidium parvum ............................. 579
Cyclospora cayetanensis Among Expatriate and Indigenous Populations of West Java, Indonesia ................ 585
The First Major Outbreak of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Delhi, India ...................... 589
Addressing the Potential Threat of Bioterrorism: Value Added To an Improved Public Health Infrastructure ........................................... 591
Current Status of Smallpox Vaccine ........... 593
West Nile Fever in Czechland ........................ 594
Ofloxacin-Resistant Vibrio cholerae O139 in Hong Kong .................. 595
Plant Pathology and Public Health .................. 597
Pet-Associated Zoonoses .......................... 598
Clinical Infectious Diseases: A Practical Approach ...................................... 599 J.M. Miller
The Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases .................................... 601
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria of Animal Origin ..................................................... 601
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology .................................................. 601
The 5th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis- Pathophysiology, Immune Consequences and Therapy ................ 601
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases ............................................. 602
Smallpox: Clinical and Epidemiologic Features ....................................................... 537
Smallpox: An Attack Scenario ................... 540
Aftermath of a Hypothetical Smallpox Disaster ....................................................... 547
Clinical and Epidemiologic Principles of Anthrax.................................................... 552
Anthrax: A Possible Case History.............. 556
Applying Lessons Learned from Anthrax Case History to Other Scenarios................ 561
Addressing Bioterrorist Threats: Where Do We Go From Here? ................................ 564