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Genome Editing and Biological Weapons

Assesses the risk of recent advances in genome editing technologies to enabling development of biological weapons.

Tags: Availability, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Risk Assessment, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

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

Defense Against Biological Attacks Vol I

Volume I discusses genetic modification technologies and their risk for dual use. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 are covered.

Tags: Countermeasures, Detection, Genetic Modification, Historical Weaponization Interest, Morbidity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Production

Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness

Introduces the basics of biological warfare agent history, biology, and preparedness. Places particular focus on detection technologies.

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

Development of a Risk-Priority Score for Category A Bioterrorism Agents as an Aid for Public Health Policy

The authors aim to create a multifactorial risk-priority scoring system for Category A BW agents using 10 criteria that include factors relating to disease potentiality, probability of attack, and prevention/intervention methods.

Tags: Availability, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Genetic Modification, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Mortality, Stability, Transmissibility

Defending the US Air Transportation System Against Chemical and Biological Threats

This report explores defensive strategies that could be used to protect air transportation spaces (specifically, airport terminals and aircraft) against attack with chemical or biological agents and makes recommendations to TSA.

Tags: Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Morbidity, Mortality, Terrorist Use

Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization

Provides a pathogen-by-pathogen accounting of weapons agents, considering their weapons use/potential and contextualizing that with typical medical microbiology and epidemiology background information.

Tags: Countermeasures, Decontamination, Dissemination, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, 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

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

Clinical Recognition and Management of Patients Exposed to Biological Warfare Agents

This provides a primer on 10 different biological weapon's symptoms to aid in a prompt clinical diagnosis.

Tags: Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Environmental Persistence, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Public Health, Stability, Transmissibility

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

Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques and Decision Support Framework for Informing Select Agent Designation for Agricultural Animal Pathogens

2023 Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques and Decision Support Framework for Informing Select Agent Designation for Agricultural Animal Pathogens.pdf

This report assesses the utility of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and decision support framework (DSF) in assisting the US Department of Agriculture in its reviews of select agents. It uses the method to assess 41 pathogens against 21…

Tags: Availability, Controllability, Countermeasures, Decontamination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Infectivity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Production, Public Health, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

The Development and Use of Decision Support Framework for Informing Selection of Select Agent Toxins with Modelling Studies To Inform Permissible Toxin Amounts

2022 The Development and Use of Decision Support Framework for Informing Selection of Select Agent Toxins with Modelling Studies To Inform Permissible Toxin Amounts.pdf

This paper developed and applied decision support framework (DSF) approaches to assess toxins for inclusion on the select agents list and developed attack scenarios to determine the amount of toxin required to impact public health in order to…

Tags: Countermeasures, Dissemination, Historical Weaponization Interest, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Public Health, Risk Assessment, Stability

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

BioRAM Security User Guide

This article describes BioRAM, a tool to assist biorisk officers in the in the identification, the understanding, and the communication of biorisks present in a laboratory and how to mitigate those risks.

Tags: Civil Disruption, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Historical Weaponization Interest, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Public Health, Stability, Transmissibility

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