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CBMTS-Industry III
Second World Congress on Chemical, Biological and
Radiological Terrorism
Sector I: Hazard Management
Chair: David Moore
Battelle Memorial Institute, USA
Co-Chair Filiz Hincal Hacetteppe
University, Turkey
This sector involved six separate sessions and a
total of twenty-two podium and three poster presentations.
Session I-A chaired by Daniel Kolleck from Canada and Warwick
Penrose of Australia focused on International organizations, treaties
and programs related to chemical and biological agents.
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Brucella species as potential
biological weapons
Dr. Philip H. Elzer
Louisiana State University AgCenter and School of Veterinary
Medicine
Department of Veterinary Science
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with potential
for use as a biowarfare agent. The genus Brucella contains
six recognized species including B. abortus, B. melitensis,
B. suis, B. canis, B. ovis, and B. neotomae. All of the brucellae
are Gram negative, facultative intracellular pathogens, which
survive and replicate in host macrophages. The hallmarks of
animal brucellosis, in both domestic and wild animals, are
abortion, infertility and reproductive failure. If used in
an agroterrorist attack, these organisms could decimate a
generation of livestock and companion animals.
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Chemical and Biological Terrorism
in Latin America: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Mariano C. Bartolome
Maria Jose Espona
National Defense School
Maipú 262, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ABSTRACT
A revision
of the main global approaches towards chemical and biological
weapons and their eventual use by terrorist groups permits the
identification of two major conceptual mistakes. First, that the
terrorist organizations that might use weapons with chemical and
biological agents will use them to cause (cont. p. 19 - CB Latin
America) (CB Latin America - from p. 1) massive damage. Second,
that there are no records in Latin America about organizations
willing to use chemical or biological agents as weapons to cause
massive damage.
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