Screen LibraryBeyond anthrax：the weaponization of infectious diseases
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 374 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781588294388 1588294382 9781597453264 (e-ISBN) 1597453269 (e-ISBN) |
| Index Number: | E931 |
| CLC: | E931 |
| Call Number: | E931/B573 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-363) and index. The history of bioterrorism : old idea, new world, continuing taboo / Stuart Handysides -- Smallpox and bioterrorism / Daniel R. Lucey, Joel G. Breman and Donald A Henderson -- Plague / Petra C.F. Oyston and Richard W. Titball -- Tularemia / Daniel S. Shapiro -- Botulism / Jeremy Sobel -- The viral hemorrhagic fevers / Daniel G. Bausch and C.J. Peters -- Melioidosis / Pooja Tolaney and Larry I. Lutwick -- Epidemic typhus fever / Mohammad Mooty and Larry I. Lutwick -- Category B biotoxins / Larry I. Lutwick, Jeremy Gradon and Jonathan Zellen -- Intentional terrorist contamination of food and water / Jeremy Sobel and John C. Watson -- Public health infrastructure / Isaac B. Weisfuse -- Public health law and biological terrorism / Lance Gable and James G. Hodge -- Public health surveillance for bioterrorism / Peter N. Wenger, William Halperin and Edward Ziga -- Psychosocial management of bioterrorism events / David M. Benedek and Thomas A. Grieger -- The role of the media in bioterrorism / David Brown -- Rapid detection of bioterrorism pathogens / David Perlin -- Plant pathogens as biological weapons against agriculture / Forrest W. Nutter and Lawrence V. Madden. |