bioterrorist

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• To assess the impact of an aerosol release of Bacillus anthracis, this article collects the available evidence on the potential benefits of environmental detection relative to the costs of a bioterrorist attack like the one in 2001, which occurred in the absence of any such detection.

  Academic text (2005)

• The probability of a bioterrorist threat may never go away, but biological surveillance will prepare communities to respond to a catastrophe in a manner that minimizes human losses and serves to enhance public health assurance in potentially vulnerable communities.

  Academic text (2005)

• But in a bioterrorist attack, there is no neat division between the act and its consequences.

  Academic text (1999)

• The impact of a bioterrorist attack can be reduced by employing biological detectors.

  Academic text (2005)

• They also show the importance of early treatment by estimating the high medical costs of a bioterrorist attack relative to the cost of early intervention.

  Academic text (2005)

• Filoromo et al. describe the use of interactive screen savers to enhance clinicians' recognition and response to bioterrorist attacks.

  Academic text (2007)

• Could the outbreak have been the result of an accidental release of a military biowarfare agent, as suggested in a Scientific American news report (Horgan 1993), or even a deliberate bioterrorist attack?

  Academic text (2002)

• Recently, inhalation anthrax cases have resulted from exposure to African-style drums made of animal hides and from bioterrorist attacks (6, 7).

  Academic text (2014)

• The human and economic impact of the bioterrorist attack depends on several factors: the agent or toxin used, the probability of infection, the number of people exposed, the speed of detection, the availability of treatment, and the potential for secondary transmission (if a contagious agent like smallpox is involved).

  Academic text (2005)

• The authorities are implementing new policies to combat potential threats from bioterrorists.

Synonyms

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terrorist

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∞ 6.2

A person who uses violence or threats against ordinary people to reach political goals

is specific to harming people by biological agents rather than general violence

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