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Slava Paperno: How come they... the people continued getting sick... sick during the next 69 days?
Milton Leitenberg: Because it turns out that the assumption in the past was not physiologically correct, that's all.
Г. Н. Лепёшкин: Если человек получил инфекционную дозу, накожно, через легкие, через глаза, через желудочно-кишечный тракт, он в течении 6-и дней должен проявить клинику. Если эта доза инфекционная. То есть если он получил достаточное количество доз, для заболевания. Если он не получил достаточное количество дозы для заболевания, он не заболеет.
Leitenberg: Well, it's tough; it's not so, that's all. What else can I say? It turns out, in the real world this experiment hasn't been done. No one has ever used this stuff in war. No one has ever, at least that we know, done it experimentally on prisoners. Right? We did in this country, Brucellosis, during World War II. Nobody ever tried Anthrax. The curve means, by definition, this... this is called a probit slope: there are some people in the population that will get a lethal dose at, not eight thousand spores, but six thousand five hundred. And some at three thousand three hundred. And some at hundred. And some teeny, little number at fifty. That's the definition. So you don't have to get eight thousand and above to get a lethal dose.