bioterrorism

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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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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