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Left: Receiver operating characteristic curves for anthrax outbreaks of different numbers of total infected (out of a population size of 2.4 million). Near-perfect detection performance is obtained when for outbreaks with total size greater than 873 (0.038% of the population). Right: Simulated anthrax attack superimposed on background influenza data for two of the outbreak sizes shown on the left.
