Are We Safer?

Bioterror back, but panic is not Bioterror back, but panic is not | csmonitor.com "One reason, in addition to ricin being less lethal and contagious than anthrax, is a better-educated public and now familiar emergency procedures. 'The government tried to educate people about it,' says Juliette Kayyem, an expert on terrorism at Harvard University's Kennedy School. 'The consequences of that [education] could explain the lack of public hysteria.' For one thing, she says, the government explained to Americans how difficult it is to cause large-scale deaths through such attacks - and even illnesses. Moreover, it is likely, as in the anthrax case, that the attack was homegrown and not a result of international terrorism."