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cord-015944-6srvtmbn	Brown, David	The Role of the Media in Bioterrorism	2008-09-10		.txt	text/plain	9473	468	58	Consequently, understanding policy issues involving bioterrorism -to mention nothing of terrorist events themselves -requires knowledge of biological mechanisms, an appreciation of clinical decision-making in medicine, and a sense of how to conceptualize and evaluate relative risks. In the 110 days after the first case, the Office of Communications at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the government agency coordinating the public health response to the attacks, conducted 23 press briefings and 306 television interviews, wrote 44 press releases, and took 7737 calls from the news media [2] . The media and public were interested in what the response to the event seemed to say about state decision making and readiness to address emergencies in general [26] .'' If a journalist doesn't really understand the medical, statistical, and biological substance of a disease outbreak, he can at least appear to be knowledgeable about the interaction of individuals and agencies, and how events are believed to be changing their power and image.	./cache/cord-015944-6srvtmbn.txt	./txt/cord-015944-6srvtmbn.txt