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Defense Against Biological Weapons (Biodefense)

Biological warfare (germ warfare) is defined as the use of any disease-causing organism or toxin(s) found in nature as weapons of war with the intent to destroy an adversary. Though rare, the use of biological weapons has occurred throughout the centuries.

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Autor principal: Georgiev, Vassil St.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122899/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-297-1_23
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spelling pubmed-71228992020-04-06 Defense Against Biological Weapons (Biodefense) Georgiev, Vassil St. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Article Biological warfare (germ warfare) is defined as the use of any disease-causing organism or toxin(s) found in nature as weapons of war with the intent to destroy an adversary. Though rare, the use of biological weapons has occurred throughout the centuries. 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC7122899/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-297-1_23 Text en © Humana Press, a part of Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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