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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.

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

Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness

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

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.

Tags: Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Incubation, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability, Transmissibility

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 Soviet Biological Weapons Program

This book thoroughlydescribes the Soviet biological weapons problem and assesses potential lingering risks in its wake.

Tags: Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Incubation, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

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.

Tags: Availability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use

Scientists Urge DHS to Improve Bioterrorism Risk Assessment

A companion document to the publication by the National Research Council critiquing the DHS Biothreat Risk Analysis.

Tags: Availability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change

The National Research Council evaluated the utility and soundness of the risk assessment process of DHS. In doing so, the evaluation provided information on how the process works, and the factors considered.

Tags: Availability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Environmental Persistence, Genetic Modification, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

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

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

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.

Tags: Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Production, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

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.

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

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.

Tags: Controllability, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Production, Stability

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

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

Bacterial Warfare: The Use of Biologic Agents in Warfare

Evaluates possibility of BW in response to public interest/concern. Reviews practical limitations to development and use of biological weapons. Covers Intestinal Disease, Respiratory Disease, Insect-Transmitted Disease, Infective (Non-Communicable)…

Tags: Availability, Controllability, Countermeasures, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Incubation, Infectivity, Military Use, Morbidity, Mortality, Population Susceptibility, Production, Stability, Transmissibility

Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis: Synthetic Pandemics.

Assessed whether engineering pathogens capable of "sustained, human-to-human transmission and causing mortality and morbidity" is possible/probable. Also considers how such pathogens would compare to naturally emergent pathogens in these regards, the…

Tags: Availability, Controllability, Countermeasures, Detection, Dissemination, Economic Consequences, Genetic Modification, Genetic Variation, Incubation, Infectivity, Morbidity, Mortality, Novelty, Production, Risk Assessment, Stability, Terrorist Use, Transmissibility

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