Category “C” Biological Agents are the third highest priority biological agents that present no immediate security and public threat because they are still evolving microbes. They are biological agents which at the moment do not present a high risk of bioterrorism to the general public but on the other hand could materialize as potential […]
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Bioterrorism
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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Bioterrorism
As an academic, researcher or student, attending conferences or doing research can be a herculean task if you don’t have access to sustainable funding for your research or further studies. In my experience of about 10 years in Academia, teaching and doing research in the specific priority area of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Nigeria and
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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Bioterrorism
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
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
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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Bioterrorism
The phrase ‘Zoonosis’ is a Greek word that comes from zoon (which means animal) and osis (which means ill). Zoonoses (plural: zoonosis) therefore, are animal diseases transmissible to humans. Zoonotic infections which can also be called zoonosis are diseases/infections caused by pathogens that can be passed or shared between humans and animals. They are diseases
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Epidemiology
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, representing the first cell-based gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients 12 years and older. Additionally, one of these therapies, Casgevy, is the first FDA-approved treatment to utilize a type of novel genome editing technology, signaling
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Statistically, the measures and/or determination of disease occurrence in a given population are usually expressed practically as rates or fractions which are stated as per the number of people in the population (for example 10, 100, and 10,000). The fraction is generally expressed as a numerator (which is the number of persons with the disease)
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Epidemiology