Monday, August 29, 2011

Scientists man bioterror front lines post-9/11
[ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:38:40 GMT ]

Informatics program leader Tom Slezak gestures in front of the mobile lab Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Detectors developed by Slezak and other government researchers to sniff the air for germs such as anthrax and smallpox have become a hidden fixture of the country’s post-September 11 urban landscape. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)After Sept. 11, federal research labs transformed themselves to invent new lines of defense against new terror threats, developing a nationwide system to sniff the air for germs such as anthrax and smallpox.


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