When rain or flood waters get into your building, take steps to prevent mold growth.

During a power outage, never use generators, grills, or other gasoline-, propane-, or charcoal-burning devices inside your home, garage, or carport or near doors, windows, or vents.

After a storm, dirty water can make you and your family sick. Remember, to wash your hands with soap and clean water!

Power outages and flooding can cause electrical hazards. Never touch a downed power line or anything in contact with one.

If a hurricane warning is issued for your area, or authorities tell you to evacuate, take only essential items. If you have time, turn off gas, electricity, and water and disconnect appliances.

Tularemia is most commonly associated with handling infected animals, or getting a bite from an infected tick or flea. Bioterrorism experts fear an uncommon but deadly means of exposure to the bacterial disease - breathing tularemia in aerosol form.

Ebola. Marburg. Lassa Fever. Find out why these viruses cause so much concern among bioterrorism experts.

No other toxin is more deadly than botulism. Learn of its fabled past.

With the success of the vaccine, is smallpox still a bioterrorism threat? Find out how the great public health triumph of the 70s may have left us vulnerable today.

It spreads easily. It kills quickly. Those are just two of the reasons the plague has been an attractive weapon of destruction for centuries.