Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses as Biological Weapons

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.

2002

Hemorrhagic fever viruses have dangerous potential as biological weapons due to the lack of effective vaccines, high morbidity and mortality, transmissibility, and difficulty of diagnosis due to variable clinical presentation in the absence of risk factors.