The biological disaster challenge: Why we are least prepared for the most devastating threat and what we need to do about it

Eliot Grigg; Joseph Rosen, MD; C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD

doi:10.5055/jem.2006.0006

Authors

Eliot Grigg
Joseph Rosen, MD
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5055/jem.2006.0006

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Abstract

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Author Biographies

Eliot Grigg

Research Associate, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Joseph Rosen, MD

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD

C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

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