| 期刊全称 | Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents | | 期刊简称 | A New Dilemma for th | | 影响因子2023 | I. W. Fong,Kenneth Alibek | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | The foreword will be written by Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID and one of the leading experts on bioterrorism.Dr. Alibek is an extremely high profile person in the field and has been featured in the | | 学科分类 | Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of b- logical warfare and bioterrorism. Biological warfare agents are de?ned as “living org- isms, whatever their nature, or infected material derived from them, which are used for h- tile purposes and intended to cause disease or death in man, animals and plants, and depend for their efforts on the ability to multiply in person, animal or plant attacked.” Biological warfare agents may be well suited for bioterrorism to create havoc and terror in a civilian population, because they are cheap and easy to obtain and dispense. Infectious or contagious diseases have played a major part in the history of warfare – deliberately or inadvertently – in restricting or assisting invading armies over the centuries. In 1346, the Tartars catapulted plaque-infected bodies into Kaffa in the Crimea to end a 3-year siege. Blankets contaminated with smallpox to infect North American Indians were used by British forces in the 18th century. More recently, the Japanese released ?eas infected with plaque in Chinese cities in the 1930s | | Pindex | Book 2009 |
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