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By Date Range: 2001-2025

Biowarfare, Bioterrorism, and Animal Diseases as Bioweapon

“This chapter highlights the wildlife component of the pathogen-host-environment triad to focus attention on the potential for bioterrorists to use wildlife as a means for infectious disease attacks against society. The value of this focus is that the underlying causes of disease emergence and the optimal prevention or control response frequently differ for disease emergence,  Read More »

Author:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Publish Date:
2006

Biosecurity Measures for Preventing Bioterrorism

“Although the words “biosecurity” and “biosafety” are sometimes used interchangeably, they differ fundamentally in that biosecurity policies counter deliberate attempts to acquire bioweapon capabilities, while biosafety measures prevent accidental infections or release dangerous organisms and toxins. However, some biosecurity measures do overlap with policies on biosafety, agricultural security, biodiversity, and counter-terrorism. Without standardized measures applied  Read More »

Author:
Center for Nonproliferation Studies-Monterey Institute of International Studies
Publish Date:
2002

Infection Prevention in Points of Dispensing

“Community-based points of dispensing (POD) will be used during disasters to distribute mass quantities of anti-infective therapy/prophylaxis and/or vaccination to an entire community in a short period of time. Without proper planning, staff training, and implementation of infection prevention strategies, disease transmission is possible in PODs. The purpose of this paper is to outline infection  Read More »

Author:
American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
Publish Date:
2009

Hitting America’s Soft underbelly: The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological Attacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry

This study aims to expand the current debate on domestic homeland security by assessing the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism. The author presents the current state of research on threats to agricultural livestock and produce, outlines the sector’s importance to the U.S. economy, examines  Read More »

Author:
Rand Corporation
Publish Date:
2004

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention

This paper examines the UK Green Paper and analyses the proposals identified in the paper with particular attention to the five specific areas identified by the UK for immediate action. The objective of this Green Paper is to outline the nature of the threat posed to international security by BW, review the arms control efforts  Read More »

Author:
University of Bradford School of Social and International Studies
Publish Date:
2002