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Bioterrorism and Biologic Warfare
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America, 2005Biologic agents have been used throughout history to influence battles. Recently, biologic agents have been used as terrorist weapons. A review of the history of biologic weapons and a medical overview of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category A and B agents is provided, including history, pathogenesis, clinical presentation ...
Michael J. Doherty, Sidney L. Bourgeois
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JAMA, 1997
The deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as weapons has been attempted throughout history. Biological warfare has evolved from the crude use of cadavers to contaminate water supplies to the development of specialized munitions for battlefield and covert use.
George W. Christopher +3 more
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The deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as weapons has been attempted throughout history. Biological warfare has evolved from the crude use of cadavers to contaminate water supplies to the development of specialized munitions for battlefield and covert use.
George W. Christopher +3 more
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The Physician and Biologic Warfare
New England Journal of Medicine, 1971Abstract The United States has discontinued all preparation for the offensive use of biologic weapons; this does not mean that this form of warfare might not be used against us.
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CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959I would like to start with two definitions defining chemical warfare and biological warfare from a civil defense point of view. Chemical warfare is the intentional use of toxic chemicals to kill or confuse man. Biological warfare is the intentional use of living organisms or their toxic products to produce death, disability, or damage to man, animals ...
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Vaccination and Biological Warfare
2002Whether it was the spread of plague following Mongol invasions, or the near eradication of Native Americans due to disease brought in from the Old World, disease has played a significant role in strategy and geopolitics. Of the many lives lost due to the violence of war throughout history, many more have succumbed to disease during battle rather than ...
Clarisa Perez-Armendariz +2 more
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
American Political Science Review, 1974Why should the world be more averse to chemical and biological warfare (CBW) than to other forms of war, repeatedly attempting to ban such warfare by means of international law? Is there some objective difference between poison gas or plague bacilli on one hand, and steel bullets, or B-52 high explosive bombs, or nuclear weapons on the other?
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The Agents of Biological Warfare
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997Kelly J. Davis +4 more
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
New Blackfriars, 1969In the 1930s there was a considerable interest in the possibility that chemical and biological weapons might be used in the war which many people realized was impending. When such weapons were not, in fact, used in the war, public interest in their potentialities died down and the use of thermonuclear weapons diverted the attention of those who would ...
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