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In recent weeks, fears about bioterrorism have led the Bush administration to request $1.5 billion to fight germ attacks, and some members of Congress are arguing for as much as $7 billion in new spending.

It pointed out that children's minds and bodies can respond differently than adults' do to chemical and germ attacks and to the medicines given to treat them, and that children were more susceptible than adults to some airborne agents because they breathe faster or because the agents tend to collect closer to the ground.

States have used the money for plans to cope with a germ attack, and some are already hiring workers who can respond to intentional attacks or natural outbreaks of diseases like West Nile virus.

In the early 1990's, Aum Shinriko, a Japanese cult, launched germ attacks in and around Tokyo that were meant to kill millions.

He said the whole scientific enterprise of the country might need to be different now that suicide jets and germ attacks had driven home the reality of new kinds of terrorism.

A year ago, the University of South Florida started a Center for Biological Defense within its school of public health, to help train doctors and public health workers on how to detect and respond to germ attacks.

"But the anthrax attacks against Americans show that a treaty is not the be-all and end-all to stopping the spread of biological weapons or preventing and dealing with germ attacks".

The next day, Dr. Hatfill was suspended with pay from a new job he was taking at Louisiana State University as associate director of the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training, a program financed by the Justice Department that teaches police, firefighters, health professionals and federal agents how to handle germ attacks.

Investigators found the cult had already unsuccessfully launched germ attacks meant to kill millions of people.

He also helped the Central Intelligence Agency assess the threat of germ attacks.

Battles persist within the federal bureaucracy, particularly over the role of the new Department of Homeland Security in preparing for germ attacks.