New agents can be produced in hours – (A: new killer agents can be produced in hours) – antidotes may take years. To gauge the magnitude of the antidote problem consider the many years and millions of dollars that have been invested, as yet without success, in developing a means of countering a single biological agent outside the biological warfare field, the AIDS virus.
Ajenti mpya zinaweza kutengenezwa kwa masaa – tibu zinachukua miaka. Kuchunguza ukubwa wa tibu ya shida inachukuwa miaka na mamilioni za vitegauchumi, sasa bila faulu, kuendeleza njia za kupambana na ajenti ya biolojia inje ya kiwanja cha vita ya biolojia, virusi ya ukimwi. Kitegauchumi kama hiyo inapita na mbali rasilimali za kazi ya usalama kwa vita vya biolojia