Immunization against Potential Biological Warfare Agents [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000 The intentional release of biological agents by belligerents or terrorists is a possibility that has recently attracted increased attention. Law enforcement agencies, military planners, public health officials, and clinicians are gaining an increasing awareness of this potential threat.
Theodore J. Cieslak +6 more
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International Deployment of Microbial Pest Control Agents: Falling Between the Cracks of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper considers one tangled web of conflicting developments. It involves the popular desire to replace chemical pesticides with more “natural” biological control strategies, plus a slowly emerging awareness of a less benign side to microbial pest ...
Knudsen, Guy R.
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Technological Advances and Evolution of Biowarfare: A Threat to Public Health and Security [PDF]
, 2023 Research in public health and medical sciences has always placed a high priority in managing disease outbreaks, effective treatment capacities, and overall human health and wellbeing.
Jha, Ashima
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Respiratory Protection Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents [PDF]
, 2008 Chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents pose unavoidable threat, both to soldiers and civilians.Exposure to such deadly agents amidst the CBW agents contaminated environment can be avoided bytaking proper protective measures.
Prasad, G.K. +2 more
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A Concept of a Probable Autoinjector for Bio-threat Agents [PDF]
, 2016 Chemical and biological weapons can be used during conflicts and by terrorists to injure or kill humans and animals. Chemical weapons contain toxic chemicals and biological weapons contain pathogenic organisms.
Bhaskar, A.S.B. +4 more
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Carbon Nanotubes: Detection of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents [PDF]
, 2007 Discovery of carbon nanotubes has great impact on the development of newer methodologies and devicesuseful for the analysis of various types of chemicals.
Kumar, Om +3 more
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Laboratory diagnosis and biosafety issues of biological warfare agents [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2002 Bioterrorism events have been rare until recently. Many clinical laboratories may not be familiar with handling specimens from a possible bioterrorism attack. Therefore, they should be aware of their own responsibilities and limitations in the handling and treatment of such specimens, and what to do if they are requested to process clinical samples ...
Andreas Voss, E. Nulens
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Biological Warfare -An Emerging Threat [PDF]
, 2020 As we approach the 21st century, there is an increasing worldwide awareness and threat regarding the use of biological warfare agents both for war and terrorist attack.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and Riot Control Agents: Advantages of a “Methods” Approach to Arms Control [PDF]
, 2012 This technical report summarizes a number of results for the multivariate t distribution which can exhibit heavier tails than the Gaussian distribution.
Kastan, Benjamin
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Biohazards of Protein Biotoxins [PDF]
, 2007 Biotoxins are toxic substances produced by a living organism that cause diseases in humanbeings, animals, or plants. The agent may be lethal or incapacitating. The new, emerging threatagents are biotoxins produced by animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria.
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