Ohio scientists criticize traditional airborne pathogens detection systems

The only thing that would be worse than a biological attack would be a false alarm that caused widespread panic and civil evacuations. Yet America may very well be taking that risk, say scientists at Ohio State University, by relying on detection methods that suffer unacceptably high rates of false positives. “Our results suggest that commonly used sampling methods detect only a small fraction of what is actually in the air,” said professor Timothy Buckley. “And what they detect is often so damaged