Now Here's Good News: Johns Hopkins, which has a department of Biodefense, and where smallpox expert DA Henderson hails from, is planning on providing a bioterror information network for doctors out there practicing on the front lines:

The aptly named Clinician's Biodefense Network will connect physicians with biodefense experts and provide them with information about treating and recognizing symptoms caused by biological weapons such as smallpox, anthrax and botulism, Lew Radonovich, team leader of the project and senior fellow at the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, told UPI.

There is a desperate need for such a system because "a number of physicians have gone on record as saying their best source of (medical) information was CNN" during the anthrax attacks last fall, Radonovich said. "Doctors just didn't know where to turn to find out what to do."

And not all of us can rely on our public health departments. Now, how do I sign up?