American victims of bioterrorism can trust their Docs to know less

27th Sep 2005, 20:15 GMT

A Johns Hopkins University study suggests that most US medicos are not equipped to diagnose or treat diseases inflicted by bioterrorists. The researchers who included 631 physicians in their study, were concerned when tests threw up that over a half of them could not correctly identify, leave alone treat bioterrorist-induced diseases like botulism, smallpox, anthrax or even plague.