The Flu versus Anthrax

by Alex Tabarrok on October 18, 2004 at 7:30 am in Science | Permalink

Annual U.S. Deaths Due to the Flu: approx 36,000.
Annual U.S. Deaths Due to Anthrax: ~1.

Spending on R&D to fight Flu: $283 million.
Spending on R&D to fight Anthrax and other biological agents: $5.6 billion.

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