Results 31 to 40 of about 61,213 (231)
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010 Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
Vijayaraghavan R, Ganesan K, Raza S
doaj +3 more sources
Biological and Chemical Warfare
Scientia Militaria, 2012 1. Chemical and biological warfare is very old indeed, at least 2 000 years old. The arsenal consists of poison tipped arrows and darts, as well as toxins found in certain wood fibres that were used to incapacitate fish in streams. Armies laying seige to
G.C. Odendaal
doaj +1 more source
A Simple Method for Generating Narrowly-dispersed Bioaerosols in Various Sizes
Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2023 Biological warfare agents (BWAs) cause disease in humans, animals, and plants when purposefully dispersed in an area. To minimize contamination and personnel exposure and initiate early treatment, effective BWA detection or monitoring techniques are ...
Young-Su Jeong +4 more
doaj +1 more source
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
core +2 more sources
Decontamination of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
ChemInform, 2009 AbstractChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Yasuo Seto
openalex +6 more sources
Biological Threats of the American Occupation of the Quds Regime and Providing an Appropriate Solution to these Threats in Iran [PDF]
علوم و فنون نظامی, 2019 The high yield, cost-effectiveness and living nature of biological agents that Biological Threats of the American Occupation of the Quds Regime and Providing an Appropriate Solution to these Threats in Iran.cause dispersal and proliferation in the ...
Reza Eskandary sedighi
doaj +1 more source
Lessons learned from 2001–2021 – from the bioterrorism to the pandemic era
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2022 Introduction and objective The aim of the study was to analyze available literature on the development of biological warfare and combating the SARS CoV-2 pandemic.
Aleksander Michalski +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Biological warfare: The many possibilities
South African Family Practice, 2004 Biological warfare has been a threat to society for many decades. This article summarises some of the most likely organisms suitable for a bio-terrorist attack, including Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, the agents of viral ...
E. Wasserman
doaj +1 more source
Environmental Air Sampling to Detect Biological Warfare Agents [PDF]
Military Medicine, 1999 The rapid and unequivocal detection and identification of biological warfare agents is a major goal of military and civilian defense authorities. To identify agents of concern in an environmental sample, a reliable, region-specific characterization of the microorganisms found naturally at the sampling location is required.
James R. Campbell +4 more
openalex +3 more sources
Biological warfare: the history of microbial pathogens, biotoxins and emerging threats [PDF]
Microbiology Australia, 2020 Bioterrorism is the deliberate misuse of a pathogen (virus, bacterium or other disease-causing microorganisms) or biotoxin (poisonous substance produced by an organism) to cause illness and death amongst the population.
William D Rawlinson +4 more
doaj