Link: Effect Measure: Tularemia on the Mall: Heck of a job, Chertie.
More flu-related news . . . Effect Measure notes the Boston Globe report on the biosecurity snafu at the antiwar protests in DC a couple weekends ago.
More than a half-dozen sensors showed the presence of tularemia bacteria the morning after thousands of people gathered on the Mall for a book festival and antiwar rally. The CDC was not contacted for at least 72 hours.
(Note: The lack of coordination between the book festival and the protests was also regrettable . . . )
But it was okay, I guess, since those alarms were false positives anyway. This makes me feel a whole lot better about the efficacy of those sensors gathering dust in Metro stations.
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