Report: U.S. Short on Bioterror Resources

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Efforts to distribute the government's stockpile of drugs and vaccines in the event of a biological attack would fall short in "the last mile" of distribution to state and local areas, according to a Democratic report critical of the Bush administration.



The administration is dismissing the report, due out Monday, as election-year politicking.


The Democratic staff on the House Homeland Security Committee surveyed health officials in all 50 states. The aides to Texas Rep. Jim Turner (news, bio, voting record), the panel's top Democrat, received 41 responses to a series of five questions about states' readiness and funds in the event of a biological attack or serious infectious disease.


Only three states reported that they are at the optimal level of preparedness for a biological attack, based on a three-point scale established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites). Four states reported that they were at the bottom of the scale, and six states had not been rated.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=6&u=/ap/20041024/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bioterrorism_report


Oh yes, feeling so much safer under your watch *. :eyes:

[NMDemDist2]

1. vote it up n/t

[Tansy_Gold]

2. This is not LBN

Oh, technically it is, so there's no need to move it from this page. I guess the news is that it's being reported.

Bt for crying out loud, who wouldn't think this anyway? No Cipro three years ago, no adequate supply of flu vaccine for three of the past four years (it's not profitable, says the big ugly dick), no smallpox vaccine when that was all the rage. Add to that the exposé of the crappy condition of bio- and chemical hazard suits when the troops first went into the region . . ..

It boggles the mind how any of these slugs (apologies to the garden variety) can possibly believe the vomit they spew day after day after day. They have to be certifiably insane.