Not only does bird flu pose a potential global health catastrophe, its threat to national security could dwarf Sept. 11, a public health expert told a Madison audience.
“I don’t say that lightly,” said Laurie Garrett, who lives next to the World Trade Center site in New York and witnessed the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Garrett, former a medical and science writer for Newsday, is the only journalist to have ever been awarded the three big P prizes – the Pulitzer, the Polk and the Peabody. She spoke as part of the UW-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series to an audience of about 200 at the Union Theater.