Biological warfare remains a threat, says speaker at Brown U.

University Wire | November 8, 2000| | Copyright

Deepak Thomas
University Wire
11-08-2000
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Biological warfare may not seem an immediate threat to many Americans, but in fact the risk of this sort of human destruction is real, according to Faith T. Fitzgerald, professor of medicine at University of California-Davis School of Medicine.

Fitzgerald spoke on the potential for biological warfare and its consequences Tuesday night, in a lecture sponsored by the Brown University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Honor Medical Society.

"This is not a happy subject, it's not upbeat, but it ...

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