Chemical and Biological Weapons Terrorism: Forging a Response

Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance

186 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2005 The final 2 chapters cover a myriad of applications used in clinical microbiology and the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Even though presented as an overview, the >100 references in chapter 11 illustrate how vast and varied the application of real-time PCR, and the technological advances to support its use, hav...

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Degradation of biological weapons agents in the environment: implications for terrorism response.

We investigate the impact on effective terrorism response of the viability degradation of biological weapons agents in the environment. We briefly review the scientific understanding and modeling of agent environmental viability degradation. In general, agent susceptibility to viability loss is greatest for vegetative bacteria, intermediate for viruses, and least for bacterial spores. Survival ...

The Chemical Weapons Convention as a Tool for Combating Chemical Terrorism

R. Justin Smith, JD T are a number of specific mechanisms by which the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), ably summarized by Dr. Sidel [below], can help to prevent chemical terrorism of the kind perpetrated in Tokyo earlier this year. The CWC is not principally focused on terrorist activities, but rather on the behavior of states. Many of the Convention's provisions, however, are also likely to...

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