1.   And it would validate the warnings of infectious disease experts who have long maintained that geographical boundaries are increasingly meaningless to the spread of disease.

2.   And some infectious disease experts warn that Bayer remains unable to supply enough Cipro if terrorists start releasing anthrax strains that are resistant to other antibiotics.

3.   But Bush, the Florida infectious disease expert, said he knew immediately what was wrong with Stevens, the first patient with inhalation anthrax.

4.   But most infectious disease experts overwhelmingly recommend Varivax despite its potential side effects and the few remaining questions.

5.   But the disease centers had consulted a large number of infectious disease experts before issuing the recommendations, Gerberding said.

6.   But several Boston pediatric disease experts argued in written statements that the regulations should be delayed.

7.   Disease experts had believed that a person had to inhale several thousand spores to produce an infection.

8.   Dr. Marguerite Neill, an infectious disease expert at Brown University, says the case histories tell stories that tables of laboratory tests and reproductions of chest X-rays cannot.

9.   Dr. Louis H. Miller, a parasitic disease expert at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., urged caution in interpreting the new study.

10.   He and other infectious disease experts have been trying for several years to promote more field studies of disease patterns and better surveillance of new outbreaks.