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Title: Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe by John Schwartz, M.P.H. Michael T. Osterholm Phd. ISBN: 0-385-33481-8 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (22 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, but far behind the times
Comment: This book presents threat scenarios, and it also presents an 8 point program.

Flatly, Dr. Osterholm doesn't go NEARLY far enough. This prescription and Dr. Osterholm's exposition of threat is far behind the times. I could understand the threat exposition not presenting the leading edge, however, his 8 point program is, today, a Potemkin perimeter. False security is worse than none at all.

Those physicians who think Osterholm is out there in the hype zone just don't understand what the march of science and technology is creating. Let us hope that we are so lucky as to only face a smallpox epidemic or, luckier yet, an anthrax attack. We could survive those.

Understand, I absolutely do not want to see any such thing occur at any level. I am simply pointing out that in todays world the scenarios Dr. Osterholm has presented are relatively minor and his program is grossly inadequate.

Rating: 4
Summary: A fascinating book on bioterrorism
Comment: Published in 2000, this prescient book presents the authors' suggestion that the United States will inevitably be attacked with biological agents, and that not enough is being done to prepare for that eventuality. Well, a year later, the first serious bioterrorist attack was indeed launched.

This book studies what agents might be used in a biological attack, how, by whom, what the U.S. government has done, and what it must do. Each chapter begins with part of a bioterrorist scenario, showing how easy and frighteningly effective a biological attack could be. Due to the fact of when the book was written, it is scathing in its review of the actions taken by the Clinton administration, but cannot comment on the bioterrorist attacks of 2001. Nonetheless, this is a fascinating book, one that I highly recommend to anyone interested in bioterrorism.

Rating: 5
Summary: Still One of The Best On The Subject...
Comment: I first read LIVING TERRORS two years ago, when the first edition hit bookstores. I re-read it this past week (mid-November 2002) and it still chills me... as well it should.

From William Clinton to anti-terrorism czar Richard Clarke to the bioterrorism mavens at USAMMRID and Johns Hopkins University-- the prediction is as unanimous as it is chilling. There will be a biological attack by terrorists --on U.S. soil-- within the next five to ten years.

And when it does, it will doubtless follow one or another of the scenarios detailed in Living Terrors. I've spent the past six hours reading it cover-to-cover, and it is an outstanding book-- the kind of thing that ought to be required reading at all levels of government and the general public. It is that rare combination of solid research and excellent writing to which all non-fiction should aspire.

I spent months extensively researching biological terrorism for my novel on the subject, Final Epidemic-- from Richard Preston to Ken Alibek to the works of Don Henderson of Johns Hopkins, and more. Living Terrors stands among the best of them. Frankly, since starting research on the subject back in November 1999, I've been shocked and appalled at just how vulnerable the world is --and remains-- to biological terrorism. Dr. Osterholm and Mr. Schwartz detail this onrushing catastrophe in a manner that is cautionary without sensationalism-- providing information that, when the inevitable microbe attack occurs, could nonetheless save American lives.

Buy --and read-- Living Terrors. And for your own sake, take this issue seriously, today.

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