Combating terrorism: assessing the threat of a biological weapons attack : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, October 12, 2001, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 88 pages |
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... vaccines in our near term and long - term preparedness against biological attack . We truly welcome our witnesses and thank them for sharing their time , their expertise and their opinions with us today . At this time , I think we will ...
... vaccines in our near term and long - term preparedness against biological attack . We truly welcome our witnesses and thank them for sharing their time , their expertise and their opinions with us today . At this time , I think we will ...
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... vaccines , there is a very important situation why we discuss vaccines . We discuss vaccines as a pos- sible protection for troops or in some other scenarios . Vaccines are not good protection against - in the case of bioterrorism . And ...
... vaccines , there is a very important situation why we discuss vaccines . We discuss vaccines as a pos- sible protection for troops or in some other scenarios . Vaccines are not good protection against - in the case of bioterrorism . And ...
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... vaccination campaign to try to contain the outbreak Anthrax gives us a completely different picture . First , anthrax has a relatively high median infectious dose of 10,000-20,000 spores . Therefore , a large portion of the contaminated ...
... vaccination campaign to try to contain the outbreak Anthrax gives us a completely different picture . First , anthrax has a relatively high median infectious dose of 10,000-20,000 spores . Therefore , a large portion of the contaminated ...
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... vaccine , no treatment short of general supportive medical care , and no cure . The outbreak will just have to run its course , much like natural Ebola outbreaks . In addition to the wide variety of naturally occurring threat agents ...
... vaccine , no treatment short of general supportive medical care , and no cure . The outbreak will just have to run its course , much like natural Ebola outbreaks . In addition to the wide variety of naturally occurring threat agents ...
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... vaccines . However , for terrorist attacks with biological weapons , vaccines would be of little use . Vaccines must be administered days to months in advance of an attack . One or more of many possible agents could be used in the ...
... vaccines . However , for terrorist attacks with biological weapons , vaccines would be of little use . Vaccines must be administered days to months in advance of an attack . One or more of many possible agents could be used in the ...
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acts agency al Qaeda ALIBEK anthrax Assessing the Threat assets Aum Shinrikyo biological agents biological attack biological terrorism biological weapons program bioterrorism capability CBW terrorism Chairman chemical and biological Combating Terrorism committee constraints contagious criticality assessment cult DECKER develop discuss disease disincentives evaluate example facilities Federal GILMAN going homeland identify important infection intelligence Iraq issue Kenneth Alibek kill likelihood major mass casualties mass destruction ment military motivation National Security Nationalist-separatist nuclear organizations Osama bin Laden PARACHINI perpetrate PLATTS possible POST potential prepare preparedness problem protection question Rajneeshee red line religious extremist religious fundamentalist response right-wing risk assessment risk management risk management approach sarin SCHAKOWSKY September 11th SHAYS Shoko Asahara significant smallpox Soviet Union statement sub-national groups talk targets terrorist attack terrorist groups Thank threat assessment Threat of Biological tion United vaccines vulnerability assessment weapons of mass