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Previous Volume 346:1337-1342 April 25, 2002 Number 17

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The prospect of having to deal with a bioterrorist attack, especially one involving smallpox, has local, state, and federal officials rightly concerned.^1,2 Before September 11, most procedures for dealing with a bioterrorist attack against the United States were based on fiction. Former President Bill Clinton became engaged in the bioterrorism issue in 1997, after reading Richard Preston's novel The Cobra Event.³ In Tom Clancy's 1996 Executive Orders,⁴ the United States is attacked by terrorists using a strain of Ebola virus that is transmissible through the air. To contain the epidemic, the President declares a state of emergency, orders that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Bioterrorism and Public Health

Building a Modern Public Health System

The Original Model State Emergency Health Powers Act

The Need for New State Laws on Bioterrorism

Civil Liberties and Public Health Emergencies

The Revised Model Act

Conclusions

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From the Health Law Department, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston.

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