US Senate leader urges research push against bio-terrorism

US Senate leader urges research push against bio-terrorism
AFP: 1/27/2005

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 27 (AFP) - The United States must build a research capacity which dwarfs the secretive project behind the atomic bomb if it is to counter an inevitable bio-terror attack, US Senate majority leader Bill Frist warned Thursday.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Republican senator said an attack would come "at some time in the next 10 years," yet the world was badly under-prepared.

His remarks were shared in varying degrees by other security experts here, including former CIA chief John Deutch who called for mass vaccination against smallpox and anthrax.
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"Recalling deadly 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States and ricin-laced letters sent to his Senate offices a year ago, he said that "we are now in an environment now where the threat of terrorism is increasing, not decreasing."
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and other things on him and others who are likely to be the Republican Nominee for 2008. when they are unknowns it's easier for attacks to stick. if Bush's national guard thing had been made more public in 2000 it would have hurt him more. just as the drunk driving thing hurt him. these type of attacks are less effective on incumbants.

yet he closed our only emergency room in downtown San Jose CA --- and not wants the City to build a new one for his "for profit" company.

If he so concerned --- let him resign from the Senate, leave his lucrative "for profit" hospital chain --- and sign up for the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - for duty at the Communicable Disease Control Center in Atlanta --- and "give something back". All he has ever done is take and steal and pontificate.