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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