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Next-Generation Biowarfare: Small in Scale, Sensational in Nature?

This report evaluates the changing nature of biological attacks.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Detection, Economic Consequences, Historical Weaponization Interest, Military Use, Mortality, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Defense Against Biological Attacks Vol II

Volume II provides high-level overviews of the biological agents that are most commonly associated with biodefense activities. Additional chapters present the status quo of antibacterial and antiviral therapy and diagnostic development.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Controllability, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use

Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: Toward a Working Definition

This paper seeks to define criteria for a Global Catastrophic Biological Risk, or GCBR, which was previously defined as an event with the potential to produce tens to hundreds of millions of fatalities, alter the long term trajectory of humanity, or…

Tags: Civil Disruption, Economic Consequences, Genetic Modification, Mortality, Novelty

Development of a Comparative Risk Ranking System for Agents Posing a Bioterrorism Threat to Human or Animal Populations

Developed a comparative ranking system of high-risk biological agents.

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Historical Weaponization Interest, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability

The Weapon Potential of a Microbe

Relationship between virulence and weapon potential, with consideration of a variety of quantitative parameters.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Dissemination, Incubation, Infectivity, Morbidity, Population Susceptibility, Stability, Transmissibility

Learning from SARS: Preventing the Next Disease Outbreak

This report summarizes a workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infections that discussed the global response to SARS and the holes that it exposed in epidemic preparedness worldwide.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Detection, Economic Consequences, Infectivity, Public Health, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism: A Historical Review

This historical review assesses the threat of bioterrorist as terrorism in general increases as a threat.

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Detection, Genetic Modification, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Terrorist Use

Microbial Threats to Health

This book describes all microbial threats to human health, especially considering the intentional use of microbes as weapons and the consequences of scientific advancement.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Controllability, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Novelty, Population Susceptibility, Production, Public Health, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

The Emergence of Zoonotic Diseases

This report summarizes the findings of the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Emerging Infections' workshop about zoonoses.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Controllability, Economic Consequences, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Military Use, Mortality, Novelty, Public Health, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses as Biological Weapons

This article aims to give recommendations for measures to be taken by medical and public health professionals if hemorrhagic fever viruses are used as biological weapons against a civilian population.

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Detection, Dissemination, Environmental Persistence, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Public Health, Stability, Transmissibility

Countering Bioterrorism: The Role of Science and Technology

This report summarizes the shortcomings of US preparedness for a bioterrorist attack and makes recommendations.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Detection, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Novelty, Public Health, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Biological Threats and Terrorism

This report summarizes a workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infectious Diseases in which members explored the current scientific understanding of threatening pathogens and what measures have been put in place to better monitor, prevent, and respond to…

Tags: Civil Disruption, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Production, Public Health, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Bioterrorism: A Clear and Present Danger

This article discusses the shift after the anthrax attacks of 2001 and what it bodes for the future of bioterrorism.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Population Susceptibility, Public Health, Terrorist Use

Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response

This paper aims to highlight the differences between chemical and biological attacks and specify areas of improvement needed in the civilian R&D sphere.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Detection, Dissemination, Terrorist Use

The Threat of Biological Weapons: Prophylaxis and Mitigation of Psychological and Social Consequences

This report discusses the potential acute and chronic psychiatric casualties following a biological weapons attack.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Incubation, Morbidity, Novelty

Biological Terrorism: Preparing to Meet the Threat

This article discusses the threat of bioterrorism in the United States.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Countermeasures, Detection, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Mortality, Terrorist Use

Peace or Pestilence: Biological Warfare and How to Avoid It

Authored by Theodor Rosebury, the author of Experimental Air-Borne Infection. The purpose of the work is to inform the public about biological warfare in the face of a lack of government transparency.

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Stability, Transmissibility

If Biological Warfare Comes

The author provides an example scenario of a biological attack and discusses what makes various agents potentially effective candidates for biological warfare.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Coagents, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Infectivity, Novelty, Population Susceptibility, Production, Stability, Transmissibility

Understanding the Threat of Biological Weapons in a World with COVID

Author surveys bioweapons experts to roadmap the most important historical trends surrounding bioweapon risk and policy (motivators, inhibitors, drivers, wild cards) from the 1940s to present day. With this information, the author attempts to create…

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Economic Consequences, Public Health

Bioterrorism: Applying the Lens of Covid-19

This report by the Counter Terrorism Preparedness network discusses the gaps in international security exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tags: Availability, Civil Disruption, Detection, Economic Consequences, Historical Weaponization Interest, Morbidity, Mortality, Novelty, Public Health, Terrorist Use

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