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Biological Terrorism - Estimated Effects of Biological Attack

Cost Estimate

  • The CDC developed a model that predicted a cost of $26.2 billion per 100,000 persons exposed to the aerosolized anthrax spores (6).
  Estimates of Casualties Produced by Hypothetical Biological Attack, as estimated by a World Health Organization expert committee in 1970*
     
 
Agent Downwind Reach (km) Number Dead Number Incapacitated
Rift Valley fever 1 400 35000
Tick-borne encephalitis 1 9500 35000
Typhus 5 19000 85000
Brucellosis 10 500 125000
Q fever > 20 150 125000
Tularemia > 20 30000 125000
Anthrax > 20 95000 125000
 
 
   
  * Release of 50 kg of agent by aircraft along a 2-km line upwind of a population center of 500,000

Table taken from source (4).