Troubled BioWatch program at a crossroads
Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 01:01
in Mathematics & Economics
After years of concern over false alarms and other problems with the bioterrorism detection system, a House panel wants Homeland Security to explain why an additional $3.1 billion should be spent on it.WASHINGTON — Year after year, health officials meeting at invitation-only government conferences leveled with one another about Biowatch, the nation's system for detecting deadly pathogens that might be unleashed into the air by terrorists.