Forget the movie "The Blair Witch Project"--if you want a good scare, check out the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a normally dry scientific quarterly published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its latest issue, the journal reprints papers presented last February by the nation's top scientists, doctors, and emergency planners at the First National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism.
In addition to overviews of scary microscopic bugs and just-as-frightening gangs of full-grown terrorists, the journal features fictional, but chilling, scenarios of an anthrax attack and a smallpox attack, each of which kills thousands of people, creates large uninhabitable zones, provokes widespread civil unrest, and sets medical practices in affected areas back by a century or more.
The issue is available online-if you dare.
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