Bioterrorism

Risk group classification of microorganisms

The great majority of microorganisms are beneficial to man, plants, animals and the environment. These microorganisms that are non-pathogenic in nature have been applied since time immemorial to produce goods and services and products that are of immense benefit to man, animals, plants and the environment. These vast numbers of non-pathogenic microorganisms are harmless to […]

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Epidemiology, control, prevention, and public health concern of biowarfare

Chemical agents and biological agents are very exceptional from other conventional warfare tools including nuclear/atomic weapons in that they are usually invisible and they produce delayed effects in victims of biologic and chemical attack. The usage of these weapons of mass destruction in formal warfare is unlikely especially now that the world is seriously yearning

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Mode of delivery/transmission of biological and chemical agents

Biological agents used for bioterrorism can be delivered or trasmissted in human or animal population through the air, water, food, vector, person-to-person contact Through air Dissemination of biological or chemical agents as aerosols in the atmosphere is perhaps the best and most feared method of bioterrorism. This is the most veritable route of disseminating biological

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Other categories of hazardous chemicals used as agents of mass destruction

Other categories of hazardous chemicals used as agents of chemical warfare according to the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) are as follows: References Aschengrau A and Seage G.R (2013). Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. Third edition. Jones and Bartleh Learning, Aschengrau, A., & G. R. Seage III. (2009). Essentials of Epidemiology in

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Category B Biological Agents

Category “B” Biological Agentsare the second highest priority biological agents that have lesser public alertness than agents in Category “A”. They are moderately easy to disseminate. Biological agents of concern for water and food safety are included in Category “B”. Agents in Category “B” cause less morbidity and mortality, and they are mostly implicated in

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Category A Biological Agents

  Category “A” Biological Agents are high-priority agents which pose the greatest security and health threat in a population. They are the primary most dangerous biological agents with the highest research preference due to their ease of dissemination, high morbidity, and high mortality. Agents in this category have the potential to cause mass public fear

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MICROORGANISMS USED AS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

Agents of bioterrorism are usually found in the hands of terrorists, scientists, and most of all some rogue nations. In the hands of the extremists, biological and chemical agents used for terrorism are unsafe and can be used with or without provocation to cause threat, economic panic, sickness, and death in a target human population.

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BIOTERRORISM – Brief History

Bioterrorism is an archaic and primitive practice of warfare that predates the development of the “Germ Theory of Disease” by Robert Koch. The Romans, ancient Greeks, the Chinese and the Persians used microbes and other biological agents including dead bodies as weapons of warfare against their enemies. The weaponization of these agents and their usage

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BIOTERRORISM – Definition & Attributes of Biological Agents used for Biowarfare

Bioterrorism is simply defined as the unauthorized, threatened, and deliberate use of microbes (including bacteria, fungi or viruses) and their products (e.g. spores and toxins) as well as other biological and toxic substances or materials to cause death or disease in human populations, plants or animals. It is the use of microorganisms and other biological

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