biological weapons, an weapons which can kill many and that also by means of biology this may refer as silent killer as being describe in many science fiction movies like resident evil etc

1. Innovation For life

3. WELCOME TO THE
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of
HUMAN
EXTINCTION

4. WHAT ARE BIOWEAPONS
 BIO IN SIMPLE STANDS FOR LIFE
 WEAPONS
STANDS FOR LIFE KILLING AGENT

5. Biological weapons are toxic materials
produced from pathogenic organisms
(usually microbes) or artificially
manufactured toxic substances that are used
to intentionally interfere with the biological
processes of a host.These substances work
to kill or incapacitate the host. Biological
weapons may be used to target living
organisms such as humans, animals or
vegetation.They may also be used to
contaminate nonliving substances such as
air, water and soil.

6. Biological
agents
Bacteria
Fungi
Protist
Virus

7. DISEASE
 Anthrax Bacillus anthracis
 Cholera Vibrio cholera
 Diphtheria Corynebacterium diphtheria
 Plague Yersinia pestis
CAUSATIVE AGAENT

8. WHAT ARE ADVANTAGES OF BIOLOGICS AS
WEAPONS?
 May be easier, faster to produce and more cost-effective than
other weapons
 Potential for dissemination over large geographic area
 High morbidity and mortality
 Creates panic
 Person-to-person transmission possible (smallpox, plague,
and viral hemorrhagic fever)
 Difficult to diagnose and/or treat

9.  Inexpensive and easy to produce
 Can be aerosolized (1-10 µm)
 Survives sunlight, drying, heat
 Cause lethal or disabling disease
 Person-to-person transmission
 No effective treatment

10.  Generate high levels of panic among population
 Easy to obtain
 Inexpensive
 Easy to produce in mass quantities
 Can be relatively easily “weaponized” or altered
for maximum effect (even with genetic
manipulation)
 High infectivity
 High person-to-person contagion
 High mortality

11. Symptoms of Potential Bioterrorism Diseases -
Challenges of Detection
Anthrax
Plague
Q fever
Tularemia
Smallpox
Agent
Mediastinitis
Pneumonia
Pleuritis, hepatitis
Pneumonia
Pustules
Clinical Effect
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Headache
Fever
Malaise
Cough
Initial
Symptoms

12. Operation Desert Storm
 The United Nations
confirmed that Iraq had
weaponized anthrax,
botulism and ricin. An
anthrax vaccination
program was initiated for
troops engaged in
Operation Desert Storm.
(After the war, Iraq
admitted testing
weaponized anthrax in
missiles.)
GULF
WAR
1991

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THE ESCHAR OF CUTANEOUS ANTHRAX

15.  US Series
 18 cases in 101 years
 Last Pulmonary Case
1976
 Sverdlosk, USSR:
 Large outbreak from
weapons plant
 Highly perverted
data…KGB, Meselson
 2001 US?

17. REFERENCE
BOOKS :
 Brooks
 ICSE Biology-1
URLs :
 http://www.americanscience.com
 http://www.google.com
 http://www.bioschool.com

19. Any Questions?