Bioterrorism: A ‘New’ Global Environmental Health Threat

Global Change and Human Health - Tập 2 - Trang 46-53 - 2001
Eric K. Noji1
1Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Atlanta, Georgia

Tóm tắt

Biological weapons represent a unique "environmental" hazard. The pathogens involved are natural in the sense that they are risks that naturally occur in our environment. However they are unnatural in the way in which they are inflicted upon society.

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