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Bioterrorism: Universal Threats and Countermeasures, Slides of Public Health

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and TechnologyPublic Health

The universal threats of bioterrorism, including the use of advanced biotechnologies for terrorism, the availability of information on producing and disseminating pathogens and toxins, corruption, and the ineffectiveness of antiterroristic and anticrime legislation. It also explores the reasons why biological and toxin weapons are becoming more attractive to criminals and terrorists, such as the increasing number of experts in biosciences and difficulties in biological weapon discovering.

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The threats of bioterrorism
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oned in the National
Strategy for Homeland
Security also in Con-
cept of Foreighn Police of
Russua :
CHARACTER OF THREATS
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The threats of bioterrorism have univerversal character. They include almost all ty- pes of threat, that menti- oned in the National Strategy for Homeland Security also in Con- cept of Foreighn Police of Russua :

CHARACTER OF THREATS

  1. Applications of advanced biotechnologies for terrorism.
  2. Information on how to produce and dis- seminate pathogens and toxins is readily available in open sources.
  3. Corruption and money laundering increase.

These threats may be classify on there

origins by follows:

  1. Contradictions between necessity of society liberalization during transfor- ming from industrial epoch to epoch of computer nets, when more effective horizontal structures push out vertical integration and struggle withcorruption becomes more difficult.
WHY BIOLOGICAL AND TOXIN
WEAPONS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME
EVER MORE ATTRACTIVE TO
CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS?

2. Increasing number of experts in

biosciences caused by development of:

  • Biotechnology
    • Pharmacology
  • Environmental and health delivery industries
  • Information availability in open sources

3. Difficulties in biological weapon

discovering caused by:

  • The absence of defensive technologies of real time regim
  • The tactical weapons utilizing pathogens or toxins can be designed so that they are easily hidden

1. The lowering of national gove-

rnments possibilities in struggle against

crime caused by main tendencies of the

third millennium:

  • Economical globalization
  • Social disruptions
  • Corruption (organized and transnational crimes, drug and firearm trafficking, laundering of money)

2. Mental disadaptation caused by the

peculiarities of modern society

  • urbanization
  • industrialization
  • technological progress
  • total population migration
  • development of mass-media
  • icrease of national and cultural contacts

4. Disparities between political

institutes development and

acceleration of economics and social

system transforming in convenience

with Hundtington conception.

strengthening of authorita- rism and spread of fundamental ideology of various genesis are the powerful source Advanced biotechnologies (especially DNA technologies and genetic and protein engineering) What is the main threat? Accumulation of enormous finances by crime structures ($300 – 500 billions of money laundered each year) Finance Technics People + + docsity.com

PATHWAYS OF PROBLEMS SOLUTION

The analysis of main difficulties of the

struggle with bioterrorism allows

emphasize two groups of problems.

Technological problems Mental problems Criminality Authoritarian & fun- damental ideology FffF Finance Biotechnologies

The mental group combines the

following questions:

  1. How people come to terrorism?
  2. What cognitve and emotional factors have affected this decision?
  3. How we can preserve them from this choose?
  1. Development of more sensitive monito- ring systems and preserve technologies, which increase the efficacy of public health and environmental service various measures.

The first problem solution demands the

following actions: