Bioterrorism: the need to be prepared
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Bioterrorism: the need to be prepared.
Postal distribution of anthrax spores in October 2001 in the USA resulted in cases of pulmonary anthrax. In consequence, interest and concern about terrorist attacks on civilian populations using biological weapons have increased, particularly when one recent authoritative assessment suggested that an attack using some form of unconventional weapon on a Western city was 'inevitable'. This artic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-3-289