ADVISORY/Today's Council on Foreign Relations Report on Terrorism Preparedness; Experts Available for Comment.

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BioSecurity 2002

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ADVISORY...

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Scientific and policy experts from Harvard and RAND can comment on

U.S. vulnerabilities to a major terrorist attack

WHAT:       Today's report sponsored by the Council on Foreign
            Relations states that the United States is still
            vulnerable to a major terrorist attack. Experts from the
            upcoming BioSecurity 2002 conference are available to talk
            about the nation's preparedness for biological and
            chemical terrorism. Our experts can address issues
            including:

            --  How vulnerable are we and what are the greatest
                threats?

            --  What is being done to create a biosecurity plan?

            --  Current methods of surveillance for early warning of
                disease outbreaks

            --  Training first responders, law enforcement and others
                for anthrax and other bioterrorism threats

EXPERTS
AVAILABLE   Kenneth Shine, MD, BioSecurity 2002 Sponsoring
FOR         Organization
INTERVIEWS: Director, RAND Center for Domestic and International
            Health Security
            Robert K. Crone, MD, Chair, BioSecurity Program Committee
            President and CEO, Harvard Medical International
            Miles Shore, MD, Vice-Chair, Program Committee
            Bullard Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
            Harvard Medical International, JFK School of Government,
            Harvard University
            Greg Ciottone, MD
            Director, Division of International Disaster and Emergency
            Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Instructor
            in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; President and CEO,
            Emergency Management Visions International

BACKGROUND: BioSecurity 2002 is organized by Harvard Medical School,
            Harvard Medical International, Harvard School of Public
            Health, The Annenberg Center and Key3Media Group, Inc.
            (OTCBB:KMED). Topics to be addressed include Risk and the
            Economics of Planning and Preparedness, Special
            Populations: Pediatrics, Geriatrics and the
            Immunocompromised, Pandemic Planning: Influenza, Emerging
            Threats: Viral and Bacterial, When Terrorism Threatens
            Health: How Far Are Limitations on Human Rights Justified?
            The conference will also feature a two-day program on
            vaccines presented by the Annenberg Center for Health
            Sciences. For more information: www.biosecuritysummit.com

WHEN/WHERE: Experts are available now for interviews by phone and in
            some markets in-person