BIOTERRORISM

Ron Walters on the “National Interagency Genome Science Coordinating Committee”

submitted by: JGI
Ron Walters from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the federal response to threats of bioterrorism on June 2, 2010 at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM.

M. Sofi Ibrahim on "Whole-Genome Resequencing"

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M. Sofi Ibrahim of the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases discusses viral hemorrhagic fevers at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 27, 2009.

BIOTERRORISM: PLAGUE AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON

submitted by: camdic
Bioterrorism is the utilization of microorganisms or toxins in order to produce a disease and/or death in human beings, animals or plants. Different from conventional weaponry, relatively economic means are used that allow the elimination of living beings without destroying the surrounding atmosphere. The most probably method for spread of bioweapons is aerial transmission, continuing into water supplies and food. The CDC (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta) has...
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