as a class A endangerment according to the CDC. It poses a significant risk to nation security. The gram positive, rod shaped anthrax spores are naturally in soil. It can be produced in a lab; it lasts long in the environment. Bacillus has been a biological weapon for over a century; it’s been mixed before with powders, sprays, food, and water. It is invisible, infectious, odorless, and tasteless. Spores make anthrax a very flexible bio weapon. Letters were once sent out from the US postal system in
Professor - Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. These agents are bacteria, viruses, or toxins and may be in a naturally occurring or a human-modified form. For the use of this method in warfare, see "biological warfare." I will talk about it next time. Honestly, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bioterrorism and bioterrorism attacks are the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins, or other harmful
spore-forming bacterium. The most common victims of anthrax are warm-blooded animals, but it can also infect humans. Anthrax spores can be produced in a powdery form for biological warfare. When inhaled by humans, these particles cause respiratory failure and death within a week. Because anthrax is considered to be a potential agent for use in biological warfare, the Department of Defense (DOD), in 1998, announced it would begin a systematic vaccination of all U.S. military personnel. (DOD, 1998) Anthrax infection
Biological warfare is war waged with deadly chemicals, biological agents, or radioactive materials (CBR). They can be used to kill large amounts of people, destroy food, or just temporarily stun them for a matter of time so troops can come in and torture them or do whatever troops led by an manipulative tyrant who destroys everything. Using CBR, allowed you to kill everything and leave the buildings standing instead of nuclear weapons which destroy everything, put fallout in the air, and have radioactive
Socio-environmental and biological influences are the major contributing factors that increase the pattern of alcohol consumption amongst youth (Salom, Williams, Najan, & Alati, 2014). According to Toumbourou et al. (2013), major environmental factors include negative familial influences and peer pressure such as accepting the behaviour to drink alcohol increases the vulnerability of the youth to alcohol abuse in later life. Similarly, Carrotte, Dietze, Wright, and Lim (2016) outline that 60% of
A positive biological implication of PGD is if they seem to remove the allele from the DNA of the embryo, then the allele will not be present in the generations following. A big biological implication is the fact that the results obtained from PGD is not 100% accurate. The test accuracy varies from 90% - 99% accurate depending of the PGD test used. Therefore there is up to a 10% error rate with PGD. A reason why the testing may not be 100% accurate is that it is possible for the biopsed cell or
cause of sexual orientation; however, two opposing sides have formed around the issue: nature (inherited genes and biology) versus nurture (the environment). Proponents of nature argue sexual orientation is biological and genetic; whereas proponents of nurture argue sexual orientation is non-biological, environmental, and socially constructed. According to the American Psychological Association, sexual orientation is not a choice; instead “…it emerges from most people in early adolescence with no prior
Access to nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapons is becoming more and more available. There is sufficient evidence that many terrorist organizations are now concentrating their efforts to develop, acquire, and deploy different types of WMD’s. If these organizations were to be successful
Nature vs. Nurture It is a matter of concern whether human behaviors and characteristics are determined by nature or nurture. If a person’s behavior is inherited directly from the genes of his/her parents or other biological factors, then it is the nature that determines his character. But if the environment that a person grew up in, affects his behavior, then it is the nurture that determines his/her character. It became a great matter of controversy among scientists, psychologists and sociologists
Biological differences between men and women contribute to many sex-specific illnesses and disorders. Historically, it was argued that such differences were largely, if not exclusively, due to gonadal hormone secretions. However, emerging research has shown that some differences are mediated by mechanisms other than the action of these hormone secretions and in particular by products of genes located on the X and Y chromosomes, which we refer to as direct genetic effects. Gonadal or sex hormones