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Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Malcolm Dando

    1. Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England

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  2. Graham Pearson

    1. Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England

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  3. Bohumir Kriz

    1. Head of the Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 1 (ASDT, volume 35)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. The Importance of Distinguishing Between Natural and other Outbreaks of Disease

    • Graham S. Pearson
    Pages 1-20

  3. Outbreaks of Disease

    • Tibor Tóth
    Pages 21-29

  4. The Agents of Concern

    • Roque Monteleone-Neto
    Pages 31-34

  5. Natural Outbreaks of Disease: Communicable Disease Surveillance in the Czech Republic

    • B. Kriz, J. Kyncl
    Pages 35-39

  6. Distinguishing between Natural Disease Outbreaks and Delmerate Attacks on Human Beings Using Biological Weapons

    • Malcolm Dando, Simon Whitby
    Pages 41-47

  7. Characteristics of Natural Outbreaks of Crop Diseases

    • Paul Rogers
    Pages 49-61

  8. Distinguishing Natural and Unnatural Outbreaks of Animal Diseases

    • Martin Hugh-Jones
    Pages 63-73

  9. Detecting Anthrax: What We Learned from the 1979 Sverdlovsk Outbreak

    • Jeanne Guillemin
    Pages 75-85

  10. Scientific Techniques to Distinguish Natural and other Outbreaks of Disease

    • Ben Steyn
    Pages 87-92

  11. Natural and other Biological Risks from a Medical Service Perspective

    • T. Sohns, E. J. Finke
    Pages 93-100

  12. The Who Role in Surveillance and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases

    • R. D’Amelio, O. Cosivi, D. L. Heymann
    Pages 101-109

  13. Reporting of Outbreaks of Disease under BTWC Confidence-Building Measures

    • Erhard Geissler, John P. Woodall
    Pages 111-142

  14. Possible Participation of the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector” in a National and Global Network for Distinguishing Outbreaks

    • Sergey V. Netesov, Lev S. Sandakhchiev
    Pages 143-150

  15. Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease: An Overview of the ARW and a 2000 Postscript

    • Graham S. Pearson
    Pages 151-167

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 169-171
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There is increasing concern over the possible use of biological weapons. If they are used, an attack will manifest as a disease outbreak among humans, animals or plants. It is thus important to be able to distinguish between natural disease outbreaks and the result of such an attack. The bok discusses the scientific and technical means available to investigate this question and then goes on to consider the agents of concern. The book concludes with a look forward to future developments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, England

    Malcolm Dando, Graham Pearson

  • Head of the Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

    Bohumir Kriz

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