Open Directory - Society: Issues: Terrorism: Biological and Chemical
See also: - Provides information on bioterrorism for all practicing physicians. - Information on biological weapons, their use in conflicts and terrorist attacks and countering them. - With guide to agents, diseases, and other threats, lab information, emergency preparedness for business, preparation and planning, and surveillance. - Browse through news, resources and archives on bioterrorism, including documentation of use by religious cults. - Analysis, research, and recommendations to improve national policy and practice related to bioterrorism, biodefense, and public health emergencies. - Updated daily with news and clinical information about bioterrorism. Hosted at the University of Minnesota. - Conducts research and provides public health and healthcare education and reference materials for biological incident preparedness. - Information, handbooks, FAQs, and documents released by the U.S. government and other organizations related to chemical and biological terrorism. - Responding to the threat. - Planning guide prepared by the Department of Defense to improve the responses of federal, state, and local agencies to emergencies involving biological and chemical weapons. [PDF] - Includes a timeline of Biological Warfare, a global guide to bioweapons, and an interactive feature on how vaccines are made. - Describes how to survive a chemical weapon attack. - First symposium held in 1999 in Arlington, Virginia. - A guide detailing treatments for potential terrorist weapons, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. - Collects links to information on bioterrorism from federal and other authoritative sources. - Discusses the ways in which the US is unprepared to respond to biological attacks. (September 17, 2001) - A look at the governments attempt to prepare for a biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil. Domestic and international terrorism are at the center of this fascinating and informative television program. (June 07, 1998) - A CDC report on various scenarios of a bio-attack, with possible problems, projections, and economic analyses of post-attack intervention. (April 01, 1997)
