Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness

Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness provides detailed information on biological warfare agents, their mode of transmission and spread. It also explains methods of detection and medical countermeasures, including vaccine and post-exposure therapeutics, with specific sections detailing diseases, their transmission, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, vaccines, prevention and management. This book is useful reading for researchers and advanced students in toxicology and the aspects of biological warfare agents, but will also prove helpful for medical students, civil administration, medical doctors, first responders and security forces.

As the highly unpredictable nature of any event involving biological warfare agents has given rise to the need for developing rapid and accurate detection systems, this book is a timely resource on the topic.

• Introduces different bacterial and viral agents, including Ebola and other emerging threats and toxins
• Discusses medical countermeasures, including vaccines and post-exposure therapeutics
• Includes a comprehensive review of the current methods for detection

Researchers and advanced students in toxicology and aspects of biological warfare agents. It will also prove helpful for medical students, civil administrators, medical doctors, first responders, and security forces

1. History of Biological Warfare Agents
   2. Biological Warfare Agents and characteristics
   3. Anthrax
   4. Plague
   5. Brucellosis
   6. Melioidosis
   7. Rickettsial Diseases
   8. Q fever
   9. Psittacosis
   10. Bacterial Toxins
   11. Haemorrhagic Viruses
   12. Detection of Biological Warfare Agents
   13. Individual Protection against BW agents
   14. Decontamination of BW agents
   15. Management of biological emergencies
   16. Vaccines for BW agents
   17. Post Exposure therapeutics for toxins
   18. Antimicrobials for treatment of biological warfare agents
   19. Bioterrorsim and its impact on global health
   20. Emerging and reemerging viral infections and importance as biological warfare agents