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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).