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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
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.
Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness
Introduces the basics of biological warfare agent history, biology, and preparedness. Places particular focus on detection technologies.
Tags: Availability, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Historical Weaponization Interest, Incubation, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Novelty, Population Susceptibility, Production, Public Health, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility
Beyond the Dirty Dozen: A Proposed Methodology for Assessing Future Bioweapons Threats
Looks at bioweaponry in the context of state-sponsored warfare. Created a scoring matrix to evaluate weaponization potential where agents were ranked from 0-3 across 12 risk attributes by NATO biodefense experts.
Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
This report summarizes a public symposium ran by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine which discussed the potential benefits and risks of gain-of-function research.
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
This book thoroughlydescribes the Soviet biological weapons problem and assesses potential lingering risks in its wake.
Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis
Evaluates the risk assessment strategies of DHS. In regard to biothreat risk assessments specifically, this work focuses on the quality of the assessments for decision-making purposes, making recommendations for improvement.
Development of Methodology to Prioritise Wildlife Pathogens for Surveillance
Considered impact of disease outbreaks with a focus on wildlife populations (as well as human and livestock). Implemented metrics for estimating the likelihood and consequences of spread of the pathogens.
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.
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.
The Weapon Potential of a Microbe
Relationship between virulence and weapon potential, with consideration of a variety of quantitative parameters.
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.
Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
Also known as the Fink Report, presented findings of the Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, which investigated the risks of misuse of biotechnology research.
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
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.
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…
Iraq's Biological Weapons
Surveys Iraq's capabilities in BW during and after the Gulf War, aiming to identify whether continued risk exists for BW development.
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.
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.
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.