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Lethality of possible bioterrorism agents based on airplane dissemination of 50 kg of the agent along a 2-km line upwind for a population center of 500,000*
| Agent | Downward reach (km) | Dead | Incapacitated |
| Anthrax | ≫≫20 | 95,000 | 125,000 |
| Tularemia | ≫20 | 30,000 | 125,000 |
| Q fever | >20 | 150 | 125,000 |
| Brucellosis | 10 | 500 | 100,000 |
| Typhus | 5 | 19,000 | 85,000 |
*Modified from World Health Organization. Health Aspects of Chemical and Biological Weapons, 1970.
