Volume 9, Number 8, August 2003

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

Edward H. Kaplan,*Christopher A. Patton,† William P. FitzGerald,† Lawrence M. Wein‡
*Yale School of Management and Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, †American Red Cross, Arlington, Virginia, USA;  and ‡Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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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