Biological terrorism

“Terrorism” was the 5th top searched term on Google from 2001 to 2002. Caroline B. Cooney describes what and how a bioterrorism attack can happen in New York City in her book, Code Orange. A Student at St. Raphael's private school, Mitty Blake is falling behind in his schoolwork, so he has to do his biology paper on the smallpox virus. When Mitty Blake finds an old book on variola major or smallpox, he finds an envelope with 100 year old scabs from the 1904 Boston smallpox epidemic.Accidentally

Bioterrorism presents a very unique threat to the United States. A biological attack can be hard to immediately detect and poses many collection challenges to the Intelligence Community. A small vial of anthrax can go undetected in the pocket of an individual through an airport, government facility, or one of the many other areas that usually have significant security designed to prevent conventional terrorist attacks. A small amount of a biological agent can do a significant amount of damage. How can the

and if one is not careful, evil will strike them down. Terrorism is a problem not only in the United States, but all around the world. While terrorism does not have one specified meaning it has come to simpler terms as a person or a group of people who has one intended purpose and that is to change the way the government operates through violence and death. There are many types of weapons that can cause mass destruction. Chemical, biological, or even

littering the once calm streets. Over the night, a government-run biological experiment dealing with germ weapons had been released, infecting, destroying, and causing panic across the globe. As a single, globalized society, we need to heighten our security against biological weapons and biological terror to prevent the endangerment of mankind. It would be most beneficial to our species if we did not try to use or experiment with biological weapons, seeing as they are engineered specifically to create

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to learn how to prepare for, and respond to. In actuality, bioterrorism and biowarfare have been around for hundreds of years, but since the anthrax attacks in 2001, it has been brought to the forefront of fighting terrorism for the United States. With the advancement of biotechnology and biochemistry, the threat of a bioterrorist attack on American soil is real and possibly imminent. DHS has had to improve their biopreparedness and find ways to rapidly respond to

sprout across the entire body. Spread from human to human, it has since been eradicated from the world through the efforts of the World Health Organization. However, there is a distinct possibility that it may be reintroduced through bioterrorism. Biological weapons may cause another pandemic to erupt across the world and kill millions of individuals. Through constant vigilance and careful planning, mankind can prevent this scenario. During the course of human history, pandemic diseases have threatened

hospital workers, in seven states had been infected by the virus; five people had died. Federal authorities are investigating the incidents. The letters set off a widespread panic. Many people feared that the letters were part of a second wave of terrorism-bioterrorism, the use of living organisms to purposely cause disease or death in others. No one knew who had mailed the letters or why. Some experts believed the letters had come from foreign terrorists; others thought domestic criminals might have

are not a danger of the past. With increasingly advanced technology, anthrax is relatively easy to produce in large quantities (Inglesby). Additionally, many countries such as China, Israel, and North Korea have nuclear weapons (The Biological Threat). Although biological weapons were forbidden during the Geneva Convention, it would be foolish for America to believe that a bioterrorist attack is out of the picture, especially at a time where large terrorist attacks are increasingly common. Thus, it

deaths and loss of conflict capability than the actual war itself. With the developing technologies being generated man has left no stone unturned in utilizing biological agents for the destruction of the enemies, however to some extent it has also benefited the society which stands true in history. These weapons created make use of biological agents or pathogens such as bacteria and viruses, plant toxins, venoms, and other poisonous substances. For this very reason, they are dangerous and can slay

There are so many issues facing the world today that it is sometimes hard to understand why they occur and what they affect. Today it is apparent that many people take the environment of the earth for granted. Pollution, energy, and natural resources are all seen as an environmental element that can threaten our future and destroy the environment. But there is another threat to the environment that is certainly overlooked by today's society and was overlooked by many in the past. This element