Catastrophic Bioterrorism
Author | : Richard Danzig |
Publisher | : Defense Department |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Danzig |
Publisher | : Defense Department |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph R. Masci M.D. |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2004-12-28 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 1135507236 |
In the battle against bioterrorism, one of the greatest challenges is finding the ideal balance between complacency and overreaction. The goal is to be so well prepared that we can prevent catastrophic outcomes in the event of a bioterrorist attack, while strengthening our ability to prevent and treat naturally-occurring infectious diseases.Bioterr
Author | : Richard Danzig |
Publisher | : Defense Department |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H. |
Publisher | : Delta |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307423123 |
America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear.... A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. coli.... Thousands in a bustling shopping mall inhale a lethal mist of smallpox, turning each individual into a highly infectious agent of suffering and death.... Dr. Michael Osterholm knows all too well the horrifying scenarios he describes. In this eye-opening account, the nation’s leading expert on bioterrorism sounds a wake-up call to the terrifying threat of biological attack — and America’s startling lack of preparedness. He demonstrates the havoc these silent killers can wreak, exposes the startling ease with which they can be deployed, and asks probing questions about America’s ability to respond to such attacks. Are most doctors and emergency rooms able to diagnose correctly and treat anthrax, smallpox, and other potential tools in the bioterrorist’s arsenal? Is the government developing the appropriate vaccines and treatments? The answers are here in riveting detail — what America has and hasn’t done to prevent the coming bioterrorist catastrophe. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, Living Terrors presents the unsettling truth about the magnitude of the threat. And more important, it presents the ultimate insider’s prescription for change: what we must do as a nation to secure our freedom, our future, our lives.
Author | : Barbara F. Bullock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biological weapons |
ISBN | : |
Perhaps the most frightening apparition of our times is the possibility that a biological agent (bacterim, virus, or toxin) will be used to attack our unprotected civilian population and inflict mass casualties. Until the Fall of 2001, anthrax attacks delivered through the mail to various U.S. senators, to the Governor of New York, and to various media offices, the previously expected use of a weapon of mass destruction against the United States has been a nuclear device that explodes or a chemical cloud that is set adrift. However, today, of all the weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological), the biological weapons are the most feared by many defense experts but these are the ones that our country is least prepared to deal with Like the concept of a "nuclear winter," the potential destructiveness of a biological attack can come in many forms and is presently very hard to detect and control, and its results could be catastrophic. The unleashing of biological agents against an unprotected civilian population also, in some cases, constitutes the ultimate medical disaster with the capability to completely overwhelm the present health care system. Patients might go to health facilities in unprecedented numbers and demands for intensive care could well exceed available medical resources. Discerning the threat of bioweapons and appropriate responses to them are critical if we are to prevent the devastating effects of bioterrorism.
Author | : Robert J. Ursano |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2004-06-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521814720 |
In addition to planning and pre-disaster exercises essential for allocating resources and devising effective mental health interventions, this book also includes two CDs showing an international panel of experts discussing how best to plan for a bioterrorist event. Although only twelve people died after the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, more than five thousand sought medical care for the effects of possible exposure. Bioterrorism can create chaos and disruption on a national and international scale. Moreover, it is believed to incur the most devastating psychological sequelae of all disasters.
Author | : Richard *Danzig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrey Trufanov |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1607500868 |
A collection of papers presented at the NATO ASI conference Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats. It highlights strategic enablers such as cross-disciplinary information sharing, international outreach and partner activities, public diplomacy and strategic communication.
Author | : Richard Danzig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biological warfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David McBride |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000289672 |
Originally published in 2003 and now reissued with a new introduction, this collection provides an invaluable, academic resource on the challenges bioterrorism posed for American society and institutions. Critically selected essays from a wide range of disciplines document and analyze the problems and implications for political, economic, and legal institutions, as well as the challenges a weapon of disease and fear can impose on public health and public policy. By placing bioterrorism into its historical context, this collection also traces the academic research and historical decisions that have contributed to the formation of American policies attempting to cope with a potentially catastrophic attack on the population in general and urban population in particular.