Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe. This item is unavailable.Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe

An epidemiologist and expert on biological terrorism takes a chilling look at America's potentially devastating vulnerability to a bio-weapon attack and outlines specific strategies--both for individuals and the nation as a whole--for preventing and responding to such threats. 30,000 first printing.

Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D, M.P.H., the former Minnesota State epidemiologist and chair and CEO, ican, INC. (www.icaninc.net), has been an internationally recognized leader in the area of infectious diseases for the past two decades. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards from the CDC, NIH, FDA, and others, and served as a personal advisor to the late King Hussein of Jordan on bioterrorism.  He has led numerous successful investigations into infectious disease outbreaks of global importance.  He is a frequent lecturer around the world and is an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

John Schwartz is a reporter at The Washington Post; he writes about science and technology and their impact on society.