The release of infectious, small particle aerosols can drastically reduce incubation times and increase the progression of "classic" disease reported in the literature. In this handbook for clinicians, Weinstein (medicine, Georgetown U. School of Medicine) and Alibeck (microbiology and immunology, George Mason U.) devote the bulk of the material to the clinical considerations of diagnosis and therapy caused by that simple fact, covering the major symptoms and disease organisms that could be used for bioterror attacks. In a smaller section they offer clinical information on 11 kinds of chemicals that may be used as a weapons. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)