County Aims Anti-Terrorism Cash at Some Unusual Targets
Los Angeles County has spent at least $2 million in taxpayer dollars intended to prepare for bioterrorism on buffing up the health department’s image, responding to unrelated health scourges and buying questionable supplies and services, a Times review has found. When public health officials couldn’t round up enough volunteers to take part in a smallpox vaccination drill, for instance, they turned to actors from an old Hollywood standby: Central Casting. Full Story