Bioterrorism Has Been Noted As the Use Essay

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Bioterrorism has been noted as the use of any kind of organism such as the bacteria, fungi or viruses, or any toxin (poisonous compounds that are produced by organisms) to eliminate the host. These elements are known to exist naturally within our environment. This then presents a legal loophole into who is supposed to posses these elements and what quantities would be termed as enough to be considered a weapon. There are real legal obstacles or shortcomings to the war against terror and in particular to the idea of bioterrorism. It is quite unclear at the global level what agents constitute biological weapons, and for the few known or categorized agents, there is no definite quantity that has been given a global legal framework to be able to be referred to as biological weapon hence constituting the possibility of being used for bio terrorism.

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This lack of clear legal boundaries has been further exaggerated by the fact that many countries still do not have the legal framework to handle the bioterrorism. Some countries will even not cooperate with the frameworks that have been proposed to them in order to fight bioterrorism, further hindering the mitigation efforts.

This then calls for a surveillance system that will help cure the effects of this weapon incase it used by some terrorist group. Of central importance in the surveillance system is an operational laboratory where the suspicious elements can be processed fast and an action taken as fast as possible. Early detection and rapid response is also central to the surveillance of the bioterrorism and related activities. This can be effectively done by….....

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