Opinion: I worked on the CDC investigation of the anthrax letters. 25 years later, are we ready for the next biothreat?
“We’ve come a long way since the fall of 2001, but we find ourselves with recent widening gaps in public health readiness and mitigation,” writes Daniel B. Jernigan.
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