The author argues that federal funding for bioterrorism research is causing a brain drain of infectious-disease specialists from more realistic threats like tuberculosis and cholera.
Madeline Drexler considers the risks and consequences of biological terrorism and argues for an overhaul of our public health system as a defensive measure.
Madeline Drexler argues that U.S. rejection of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and recently disclosed secret offensive research into biologcal weapons has given a green light to conduct biological terrorism to rogue states and terrorists.