The second consequence of the anthrax attacks has been a strengthening of the US emergency management systems:

The National Security Strategy of the USA of Sept 2002 stated that strengthening these emergency management systems would not only make the country better able to manage terrorism, but also all infectious disease outbreaks and mass casualty dangers. The border control would stop not only terrorists but improve efficient movement of legitimate traffic – i.e. the document connects terror, bioterror, infection of the body and of the nation by foreign bodies. Although there is an intensified exchange of pathogenic organisms along the path of migration, this exchange is more pronounced in the global tourist traffic. Yet here illegal immigration and the threat from infectious disease seem on the same level as terror and bioterror (Sarasin 2006).