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Bioterrorism Research Guide

  
eMedicine Journal
(focus on Anthrax) (Warfare - Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear And Explosives) eMedicine, Inc. maintains this website that allows authors and editors
from around the world to write peer reviewed articles
online quickly and efficiently on many medical topics including diseases and illnesses caused by bioterrorism.
Emergency Medicine | Warfare - Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear And Explosives | Biological Warfare Agents
Anthrax Infection

American Medical Association

• JAMA
  Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Anthrax as a Biological Weapon (May 12, 1999)
  • Free JAMA articles on the following other biological weapons:
    Botulinum, Plague, Smallpox, Tularemia
• Disaster Preparedness
  • AMA message to Physicians on inhalation and cutaneous anthrax

World Health Organization
World Anthrax Data Site (not recently updated)

More links on Bioterrorism

Government Information
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Public health Emergency Preparedness and Response and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response. See also Anthrax--CDC Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases--transmission, symptoms, treatment, and vaccination.

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal--special issue dealing with bioterrorism from CDC publication.

California Bioterrorism Surveillance & Epidemiology Team
The newly established Bioterrorism (BT) team of the Disease Investigations and Surveillance Branch is part of a multidisciplinary CDHS initiative to strengthen public health infrastructure to detect, identify, investigate, and control illnesses due to biological or chemical terrorist attacks. The team will focus on enhancing state and local health surveillance and epidemiologic response capacity for diseases due to
biological agents such as anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fever.

US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD): Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare and Chemical Fact Sheets

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID): Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook and Biological Defense Related Sites

US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command: MSDS for Nerve Agents

Educational and informational sites

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): Bioterrorism Resources

Bioterrorism in the United States: Threat, Preparedness, and Response--Medscape Resource Center.

Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies--Johns Hopkins University
Agent Fact Sheets and Confronting Biological Weapons
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies is a part of the Johns
Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health. The Center aims to raise consciousness and knowledge base regarding the medical and public health threats posed by biological weapons, and to foster the planning and preparation for response to possible bioterrorist attacks. This web site provides information and web links to academic, scientific, and governmental sites related to bioterrorism.

Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections--St. Louis Univ.

Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute

National Association of County and City Health Officials : Bioterrorism and Emergency Response Program and Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism

National Safety Council: Nerve and Biological Agents

Stimson Center: Chemical and Biological Terrorism
The Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project of the Henry L. Stimson Center examines the panoply of issues associated with chemical and biological weapons, including treaties for threat control and reduction, weapons destruction technologies, and export controls. This web site offers materials developed specifically for the project, and is organized by geographical region and subject.

Open Directory Project (Netscape): Biological and Chemical Warfare