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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_threat&cid=542&ncid=716
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excerpt:
CDC Ships 'Chem-Packs' for Preparation
54 minutes ago
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON - The government is quietly shipping stocks of antidotes against chemical weapons to states under a long-awaited program to boost response to a potential terrorist attack.
New York and Boston, sites of the upcoming political conventions, were among the first areas to receive the "chem-packs."
Within two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) hopes to have the allotments dispersed to every state.