Biological weapon/Related Articles

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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

Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
Dual-use [r]: Add brief definition or description
CDC Bioterrorism Agents-Disease 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]

Centrifuge [r]: A device which separates particles or droplets suspended in a liquid based on their relative densities,using centrifugal force generated by spinning the sample rapidly around a fixed axis. ^[e]
Fermenter [r]: In an industrial context, a large vessel, agitators and circulating pumps, heating or chilling, air supply or air exclusion, etc., used to produce large amounts of microorganisms or of their components or secretions ^[e]
Lyophilizer [r]: Commonly called a freeze-dryer, a method of preserving, with high quality, foods, sensitive chemicals, and even living cells, by chilling them to cryogenic temperatures and then applying vacuum such that the frozen water sublimes in place, not disrupting the structure of the frozen material ^[e]

Aerosol dispersion [r]: In the context of weapons of mass destruction, the range of technologies necessary to deliver biological or chemical weapons, to large areas, as "clouds" of aerosolized particles ^[e]
Entomological warfare [r]: The use of insects, or more generally arthropods, as a biological weapon; the most common usage is to use the insects as vectors for transferring pathogenic microorganisms, but there have been suggestions of direct use of harmful insects, especially against agricultural targets ^[e]