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Medical Aspects of Combating Acts of Bioterrorism--Gennady G. Onishchenko
Medical Aspects of Combating Acts of Bioterrorism--Gennady G. Onishchenko
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The imperfect nature of mechanisms for monitoring compliance with the chemical and biological weapons conventions, suspicions regarding the continuation of work on biological weapons programs, and a number of incidents involving attempts to intentionally use biological agents for terrorist purposes are evoking serious concerns that terrorists might actually use biological means as weapons. One of the first and most illustrative examples of the use of bioterrorism was the intentional poisoning of residents of a small city in the state of Oregon (United States)
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However, the current state of affairs is such that most clinical microbiological laboratories have neither the capabilities nor the experience in real-life detection and identification of infectious agents from a list of those that might be used by bioterrorists, such as anthrax, brucellosis, botulism, cholera, plague, smallpox, hemorrhagic fever viruses, and others. Biological agents of critical importance from the standpoint of civilian public service preparedness may be divided into the following three categories based on their characteristics: 1.
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The system of scientific, organizational, and other measures aimed at improving the preparedness of the health care system for meeting the threat of bioterrorism must not undermine the measures already in place to combat infectious diseases. Instead, it should promote the constant improvement of the health care and biomedical research infrastructure and facilitate cooperation involving the capabilities of other agencies, such as the Ministry for Emergency Situations, regional units of the sanitary-epidemiological service, and relevant scientific research institutes.
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• These laboratories must be open to new technologies and methods of identifying, diagnosing, and deactivating infectious agents, and in this regard, they must support close linkages with the relevant scientific research institutes working in the given field. The following actions should be taken as part of the Federal Scientific Research Program on Combating Bioterrorism: • Develop new express immuno-enzyme and other test systems for detecting antigens and antibodies as markers for hemorrhagic fever viruses, smallpox, anthrax, tularemia, plague, legionellosis, malaria, and so forth.
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