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{{r|Chemical Weapons Convention}} | {{r|Chemical Weapons Convention}} | ||
Revision as of 01:42, 4 December 2010
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Parent topics
- Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Categorization
- Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dual-use [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDC Bioterrorism Diseases-Agents List [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Select Agent Program [r]: Pathogens or biological toxins which have been declared by the US Department of Health and Human Services or by the US Department of Agriculture to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. [e]
Potential agents
- Bacillus anthracis [r]: The bacterium that causes anthrax. It is a Select Agent and a high-risk biological weapon. [e]
- Anthrax [r]: A naturally occurring disease, caused by Bacillus anthracis, which has been weaponized as a biological weapon and also in bioterrorism [e]
- Francisella tularensis [r]: Pathogenic, aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, that causes the circulatory disease tularemia, which can be contracted via contaminated food or drink, physical contact, spray, or bug bite. [e]
- Tularemia [r]: An extremely infectious disease, 15% lethal when untreated and <1% fatal when properly treated, distributed worldwide in animals and ticks, that has been weaponized by several national biological warfare programs [e]
- Variola virus [r]: Orthopoxvirus species that cause smallpox and alastrim. [e]
- Smallpox [r]: A contagious infectious disease, caused by Variola major, which has been eradicated from the wild; its reappearance would almost certainly be biological warfare and a worldwide crisis [e]
- Coxiella burnetii [r]: The rickettsia that causes Q fever. [e]
- Clostridium botulinum [r]: Gram-positive, anaerobic rod shaped bacterium that produces the neurotoxin botulin, which causes the flaccid muscular paralysis seen in botulism, and is also the main paralytic agent in botox. [e]
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yersinia pestis [r]: Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, that can infect humans and other animals in three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the notorious bubonic plagues. [e]
Investigation and verification
- Hutton inquiry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Special Commission [r]: (UNSCOM) United Nations organization, formed after the Iraq War, to assess the weapons of mass destruction capability of Iraq [e]
- Medical intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
Organizations
- Aum Shinrikyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biopreparat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Detrick [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Porton Down [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unit 731 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Production
- Centrifuge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fermenter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lyophilizer [r]: Add brief definition or description
Dissemination
- Aerosol dispersion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Entomological warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Defense
Response
- CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
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