Biotechnology: impact on biological warfare and biodefense.

Biodefense: Trends and challenges in combating biological warfare agents

Biodefense: Trends and challenges in combating biological warfare agents

Smallpox and biological warfare: a disease revisited.

T his is the second article in a series of papers addressing issues related to biological warfare and bioterrorism. As outlined in the historical review of biological warfare (1), smallpox is one of the most devastating diseases that could potentially be used as a biological weapon. In fact, smallpox was for many centuries devastating to mankind. However, the remarkable efforts of the World Hea...

Biotechnology and Biochemical Weapons

Dr. Mark Wheelis is Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of California (UC), Davis, where he has been teaching in the field since 1970 and is also Director of the Program in Nature and Culture. He has authored numerous pieces on the history of biological warfare and the control of biological weapons, including two chapters on biological warfare in Biological and Toxin Weapons: Rese...

Anthrax as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public Health Management

OF THE NUMEROUS BIOLOGIcal agents that may be used as weapons, the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense has identified a limited number of organisms that could cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers to cripple a city or region. Anthrax is one of the most serious of these diseases. High hopes were once vested in the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention, which prohibited offensive bio...