What can citizens do to protect themselves from a possible biological disaster?
It may not be apparent that a biological agent has been dispersed until people begin falling ill several days later. For most biological agents, the initial symptoms would resemble a flu-like malaise. Across the nation, local, state, and federal authorities are putting capabilities in place to improve the ability to detect abnormal public health problems rapidly– to distinguish between multiple cases of the flu or a possible biological agent attack.
