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Knowledge and preparedness of healthcare providers towards bioterrorism
BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Several emergent circumstances require healthcare providers to recognize the unusual and dangerous and pathogenic agents. An in-depth literature review showed that studies about bioterrorism preparedness amongst healthcare providers are ...
Abdullah Nofal +8 more
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SAGE Open Nursing, 2019 Terrorist attacks are increasingly becoming more lethal and less discriminate. The threat of bioterrorism is increasing daily. The ease of production and the broad availability of biological agents and technical know-how have led to a further spread of ...
Confidence A. Atakro MN, BSN, RN +9 more
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Metabolic network analysis-based identification of antimicrobial drug targets in category A bioterrorism agents. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The 2001 anthrax mail attacks in the United States demonstrated the potential threat of bioterrorism, hence driving the need to develop sophisticated treatment and diagnostic protocols to counter biological warfare.
Yong-Yeol Ahn +4 more
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Bioterrorism education effect on knowledge and attitudes of nurses
Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2013 Context: The most important way against bioterrorism is reinforcement of knowledge of health and medical team to diagnose and rapid reaction during these events.
Nahid Aghaei, Masoumeh Bagheri Nesami
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Laboratory Response to Anthrax Bioterrorism, New York City, 2001 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 In October 2001, the greater New York City Metropolitan Area was the scene of a bioterrorism attack. The scale of the public response to this attack was not foreseen and threatened to overwhelm the Bioterrorism Response Laboratory’s (BTRL) ability to ...
Michael B. Heller +11 more
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Responding to bioterrorism [PDF]
EMBO reports, 2001 Pandora's box has been opened. At the time of writing this Editorial in early November, a magazine editor in Florida, two postal workers in the mail office of Congress and a hospital worker in New York have died of pulmonary anthrax. Thirteen more, including a 7‐month‐old baby, have been infected with anthrax spores sent via anonymous letters ...
Holger Breithaupt
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US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism Since 9/11, 2019 This final section examines a mode of attack which has been repeatedly connected with nuclear terrorism in the debate over security. The weapons, usually phials or bottles, are so small that they easily avoid detection and with this kind of attack there is of course no moment of detonation, only a gradual increase in casualties.
D. Seed
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Smallpox and bioterrorism. [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003 Smallpox was declared to be eradicated on 8 May 1980, during the Thirty-third World Health Assembly. However, concerns about the possible use of the virus as a weapon of bioterrorism have increased in recent years. Governments have responded by initiating selective vaccination programmes and other public health measures.
Pennington Hugh
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Hospital Preparedness for Bioterrorism [PDF]
Public Health Reports, 2001 James D. Bentley, PhD3 I have been asked to address what happens when, despite the best detection, the best prevention, and the best information, people get sick in a bioterrorism attack and end up in the hospital. The hospital is the likely source of care because it is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
James D. Bentley
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