Volume 9, Number 8—August 2003

Perspective

Detecting Bioterror Attacks by Screening Blood Donors: A Best-Case Analysis

Edward H. Kaplan* , Christopher A. Patton†, William P. FitzGerald†, and Lawrence M. Wein‡

Author affiliations: *Yale School of Management and Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; †American Red Cross, Arlington, Virginia, USA; ‡Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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Figure 2. Mean attack detection delays for noncontagious (solid) and contagious (dashed) agents as a function of the initial attack size. Other parameters set as in Figures 1 and 3.

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