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

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.

• Geschäftsordnung
• Nation
• emerging infectious
• emerging infectious disease
• infectious
• infectious disease
• infectious diseases

• 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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