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Essay / A Brief Note on Bioterrorism - 899
The definition of bioterrorism refers to people who release bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms for purposes known as biological agents, the purpose is to leave humans, animals or plants dead by pathogens. The formulation is largely derived from nature, but is capable of being cultivated to produce changes to make it more pathogenic, provide access to existing pharmaceutical resistance, or increase environmental spread. Bioterrorism, the word comes from bio- and terrorism. Bio- is a combined form meaning “life”, “living organism”, “biology”. English "terror", the word comes from the Latin verb "terrere", which means "fear". Using biological agents as a weapon against opponents, this concept dates back much earlier to the 19th century to produce the theory of pathogenic bacteria before the Romans, Greek and Persian civilizations era and Middle Ages. At that time, people believed that the foul odor was the spread of disease, so they threw the fetid corrupted carcasses into the water, attempting to pass through the contaminated drinking water system and leading to other opponents of the disease , 12th-century Italians Barbarossa contaminated drinking water sources with humans. corrupted corpses. And this ancient method was used until the American Civil War. In the 19th century, biological warfare became widespread. During World War II, some countries began to show greater interest in biological warfare research programs. Japan led biological weapons research from 1932 until the end of World War II. They used prisoners captured during the war for an experiment and many of these prisoners died from experimental inoculation with agents causing gas gangrene, dysentery, anthrax, cholera, meningococcal infection. . middle of paper... ... work, strengthen routine health emergency preparedness, early warning and rapidly improve forecasting capacity to effectively deal with, promote live epidemiological investigation and improvement of related skills laboratory tests. If humans overcoming the virus makes us proud, then the story of human use of viral guts leaves human shame. When humans began to gain great knowledge of disease-causing viruses and bacteria, villains also began to think of using viruses and bacteria as a tool to kill people. War breeds the evil of humanity, but also nurtures many evil tools. Used bacteria and viruses as weapons of war, although the International Convention on the Use of Viruses and Bacteria has been banned in war, but terrorists will not be bound. The world has begun to realize that biological warfare is prohibited does not mean bioterrorism is prohibited..