Some experts say the lack of a public stockpile of anthrax vaccine is looming as a potentially more serious gap in national preparedness against bioterrorism.
She was apparently acting on advice from a senior government minister who told the public to stockpile gas in the event of a trucker strike that may never happen.
Instead, they are fighting to maintain the status quo of rounding up wild horses en masse from public lands and stockpiling them in holding facilities, a practice the NAS recently deemed "expensive and unproductive".
Because of the potentially important implications of our findings for public health and stockpiling strategies, and because of the apparent discrepancy with the results of Hurt et al. (6 ), we retested 2 viruses from each group against an independent source of oseltamivir carboxylate (provided by Biota, Notting Hill, Victoria, Australia).
One day out and there are nationwide reports of public outcry and product stockpiling.
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services said they had taken steps to protect public health resources like stockpiles of drugs and vaccines.
Officials travelling with Mr Kerry said they wanted a rapid agreement with the Russians on principles for the process, including a demand for Syria to give a quick, complete and public declaration of its stockpile.
Ahmed Nabawi, a gas station manager, said he had heard several reasons for the gas crisis: technical glitches at a storage facility, a shipment of low-quality gas from abroad and unnecessary stockpiling by the public.
The main protection for the public right now is a stockpile of vaccine that could be administered to everyone after any attack.
Temporary ones caused by ordering delays "were amplified by the media," he said, adding, "But when the public panicked, they started to stockpile".
