Written in the dust

摘要

As the US reels under anthrax attacks and braces against the possibility of bioterrorists armed with smallpox, the handful of scientists who study the obscure germs that also make scary biological weapons have suddenly found them selves in the spotlight. Kimothy Smith knows that better than most-his lab was in the thick of the anthrax investigation. Now, as he tells Debora MacKenzie, this expertise is likely to take him to one of the world's hottest hot spots.