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Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare

Contents Contributors xi Peer Reviewers xvii Foreword by The Surgeon General xxi Preface xxiii 1. Historical Overview: From Poisoned Darts to Pan-Hazard Preparedness 1 George W. Christopher, Daniel M. Gerstein, Edward M. Eitzen, and James W. Marting 2. Epidemiology of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism 37 Zygmunt F. Dembek, Julie A. Pavlin, Martina Siwek, and Mark G. Kortepeter 3. Food, Waterborne, and Agricultural Diseases 71 Zygmunt F. Dembek, and Edwin L. Anderson 4. Consequence Management: The Local and National Response 93 Neal E. Woollen, and Gary W. Carter 5. Medical Management of Potential Biological Casualties: A Stepwise Approach 109 Theodore J. Cieslak 6. Anthrax 129 Bret K. Purcell, Christopher K. Cote, Patricia L. Worsham, and Arthur M. Friedlander 7. Brucellosis 159 Bret K. Purcell, R. Martin Roop II, Arthur M. Friedlander, and David L. Hoover 8. Glanders 177 Susan L. Welkos, Bridget Carr Gregory, David M. Waag, and Mary N. Burtnick 9. Melioidosis 223 Paul J. Brett, David DeShazer, and Nicholas J. Vietri 10. Plague 247 Patricia L. Worsham, Thomas W. McGovern, Nicholas J. Vietri, Arthur M. Friedlander, and Joel Bozue 11. Tularemia 285 Matthew J. Hepburn, Todd M. Kijek, Wendy

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