Bioterror Agents Join List of `Emerging’ Ills: The New York Times covers an Atlanta conference on emerging infectious disease sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. In addition to anthrax and other potential biological warfare agents, (“We learned we were not adequately prepared”) the conference paid attention to West Nile Fever (“It will continue to spread and will be a major public health problem in the next decade”), the “roaring” dengue fever epidemic in Latin America, and the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections such as fluoroquinolone-resistant pneumococcus, resistant gonorrheal infections, and MRSA (multiply-resistant Staph. aureus). An underlying theme is the ill-prepared nature of our public health infrastructure.