| Description: | This is a report of a telephone survey of Texans looking at the respondents’ levels of awareness, perceptions, knowledge, and beliefs about issues relating to bioterrorism, infectious diseases and other public health threats and emergencies. Questions in the survey asked Texans what types of threats they classified as bioterrorism, how likely they thought it was that such an attack would occur, where they would obtain information during a bioterrorism attack, whether they had recently heard anything about bioterrorism such as a public announcement and whether they could recall the importance of the messages, how prepared they felt the state of Texas was for a bioterrorism attack, and types and modes of bioterrorism attacks such as bacteria and viruses through air, water, or food sources. Overall, the survey showed conflicting opinions of bioterrorism that varied significantly by race and ethnicity, particularly among Hispanics. |