媒体报道,美国总统克林顿要求美国国会在明年的预算中增加3亿美元,用于打击生物恐怖主义。这是迄今为止美国联邦政府为打击和防御生物恐怖主义拨出的最高额专款。长期以来,很多反生物恐怖主义的专家,一直呼吁美国政府加强预防鼠疫、出血热、炭疽和肉毒素等传染性物质攻击的能力。 According to media reports, U.S. President Clinton asked the U.S. Congress to increase 300 million U.S. dollars in next year’s budget to combat bioterrorism. This is by far the largest U.S. appropriation made by the federal government to combat and prevent bioterrorism. For a long time, many anti-bioterrorism experts have been urging the U.S. government to step up its capacity to prevent attacks by infectious agents such as plague, hemorrhagic fever, anthrax and botulism.