Biological weapons

One common theory about the origin of AIDS is that the virus originated in Africa. They believe that AIDS was transferred to humans by route of either eating infected chimpanzees or their blood infecting a human through an open wound or sore. After the first human was infected, the infection soon spread as Brandon Keim wrote in “Early Spread of AIDS Traced to Congo’s Expanding Transportation Network”. “The number of infections soon tripled, and the virus’s range expanded.” It is said that HIV

civil conflicts are one of the biggest problems in some parts of the country. With war, any sort of weapon is able to be used, even though the United Nations have put up international laws forbidding certain types of weapons. One of these laws, outlaws the use of biological warfare. There has been many famous examples of biological warfare in America’s history. Bioterrorism is related to biological warfare, but they also have many differences. Bioterrorism is used mainly to induce fear and cause the

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

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

Biological Terrorism: Our City Streets as the New Battlefield The last 60-70 years of the twentieth century might be called the modern era of biological warfare. During this period, nation states developed biological weapons to be used on a far-away “European battlefield”. Even after ratification of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, the most impressive BW program in the history of mankind continued for 20 years, effectively cloaked in secrecy. Yet between 1970 and 1990, little thought

use the virus as a weapon. Publications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that the threat of smallpox being deliberately released by bioterrorists groups is presently considered as a possibility. American

both in war and terrorism chemical, biological or radiological agent can be used. In any of these situations, significant social, environmental and economical impact would occur. Casualties following disasters, and major accidents could escalate very rapidly if necessary preventive methods are not followed. Infectious disease disasters consist of biological attack, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemics. There are a broad range of potential biological agents, including bacteria, viruses

In the fall of 2001, Dr. Bruce Ivins was the main suspect of an anthrax mailing to news media outlets and two U.S. Senators (Shachtman). Five people died from the deadly bio weapon, called Dugway Ames Spores, a type of anthrax Dr. Bruce Ivins created and worked with to develop a vaccine in his workspace, or office, the Hot Suite in the U.S. Army Medical Department, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute Of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID (Engelberg). Seventeen others were ill from the anthrax exposure

BIOTERRORISM DEFINITION 　　Bioterrorrism comes the word bio and terrorism.Bio comes the word biological agent while terrorism is violence and threats to intimidate and force people to follow some rules especially when it related to politics. So bioterrorism means sudden outbreak of biological agent dissemination for violence and to threats to intimidate people. They deliberate release these biological agent such as viruses, bacteria, toxin or germs and cause death to innocent people. Viruses have

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