Cieslak T J, Eitzen E M
Operational Medicine Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702, USA.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2000 Jul;6(4):19-29. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200006040-00005.
The intentional dispersal of biological agents by terrorists is a potential problem that increasingly concerns the intelligence, law enforcement, medical, and public health communities. Terrorists might choose biological agents over conventional and chemical weapons for multiple reasons, although it is difficult to predict, with certainty, which biological agents might prove attractive to terrorists. One can more confidently, however, derive a list of those few agents which, if used, would be of greatest public health consequence. It is these agents which will require the most robust countermeasures. We discuss the derivation of this short list of agents and the specific diseases involved.
恐怖分子故意散布生物制剂是一个潜在问题，越来越引起情报、执法、医疗和公共卫生界的关注。恐怖分子选择生物制剂而非常规武器和化学武器可能有多种原因，尽管很难确切预测哪些生物制剂会对恐怖分子有吸引力。然而，人们可以更有把握地列出少数几种如果被使用将对公众健康造成最大影响的制剂清单。正是这些制剂将需要最有力的应对措施。我们讨论了这份简短制剂清单的推导过程以及所涉及的具体疾病。
