Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization

Item Details

Title

Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization

Topics

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.

Date

2005

Conclusions

Through providing background information on weapons agents, provides useful context for threat assessment. Risk approximation is not direct, but instead generally inferred from previous weapons development.

Source

Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization. Zubay, G. editor. Columbia University Press. 2005. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/zuba13346. Accessed March, 2024.

Citation

“Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization,” Collection of Biothreat Risk Assessments (COBRA), accessed January 15, 2025, https://cobrabiosecurity.org/items/show/554.