http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1537 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/simulation-bioterrorist-warning-system-passes-test <!--paging_filter--><p>Working within a bioterrorism scenario, an early warning system to detect attacks fulfilled its mission. Those who conducted the test say that, had it been real, millions of lives would have been saved. "We estimate that smallpox cases could have been reduced by as much as six or seven orders of magnitude, from 10 million without the early warning system to 10 cases with it in place," says Kenneth Mandl, director of emergency medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston. Mandl also believes that the new system could decrease the toll from a large-scale anthrax attack or a lethal outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).<p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/simulation-bioterrorist-warning-system-passes-test">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:29:54 -0400 70652986 3374 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu