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Parent topics

• 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

Subtopics

Categorization

• Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dual-use [r]: Materials or equipment capable of being used either in civilian applications, or for military applications subject to counterproliferation controls, or for other sensitive uses such as the drug trade ^[e]
• CDC Bioterrorism Diseases-Agents List [r]: A formal procedure for categorizing organisms as biological warfare threats, with a schedule of included agents, which complements the Select Agent Program list and the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention; it is more for emerging threats or reassessments of hazard ^[e]
• 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]

Potential agents

• Bacillus anthracis [r]: The bacterium that causes anthrax. It is a Select Agent and a high-risk biological weapon. ^[e]
  • Anthrax [r]: A naturally occurring disease, caused by Bacillus anthracis, which has been weaponized as a biological weapon and also in bioterrorism ^[e]
• Francisella tularensis [r]: Pathogenic, aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, that causes the circulatory disease tularemia, which can be contracted via contaminated food or drink, physical contact, spray, or bug bite. ^[e]
  • Tularemia [r]: An extremely infectious disease, 15% lethal when untreated and <1% fatal when properly treated, distributed worldwide in animals and ticks, that has been weaponized by several national biological warfare programs ^[e]
• Variola virus [r]: Orthopoxvirus species that cause smallpox and alastrim. ^[e]
  • Smallpox [r]: A contagious infectious disease, caused by Variola major, which has been eradicated from the wild; its reappearance would almost certainly be biological warfare and a worldwide crisis ^[e]
• Coxiella burnetii [r]: The rickettsia that causes Q fever. ^[e]
  • Q fever [r]: Disease caused by infection with the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects both humans and animals, resulting in a rash, fever, malaise, and muscular pains. ^[e]
• Clostridium botulinum [r]: Gram-positive, anaerobic rod shaped bacterium that produces the neurotoxin botulin, which causes the flaccid muscular paralysis seen in botulism, and is also the main paralytic agent in botox. ^[e]
  • Botulism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yersinia pestis [r]: Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, that can infect humans and other animals in three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the notorious bubonic plagues. ^[e]
  • Plague [r]: Contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague, both forms of the same infection, caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis. ^[e]

Investigation and verification

• Hutton inquiry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United Nations Special Commission [r]: (UNSCOM) United Nations organization, formed after the Iraq War, to assess the weapons of mass destruction capability of Iraq ^[e]
• Medical intelligence [r]: Techniques involved in determining the public health of a country, so the physical characteristics of leaders and workers are understood, as well as local hazards to foreigners entering the country or regions of it ^[e]

Organizations

• Aum Shinrikyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Biopreparat [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chemical Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fort Detrick [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Porton Down [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unit 731 [r]: Add brief definition or description

Production

• Centrifuge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fermenter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lyophilizer [r]: Add brief definition or description

Dissemination

• Aerosol dispersion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Entomological warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description

Defense

• Counterproliferation [r]: Add brief definition or description

Response

• Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description