Evaluation of Nipah Virus as a Human and Animal Biological Terrorism and Warfare Agent

Abstract

In July 1999, the delegation of the Republic of Croatia to negotiations in Ad Hoc group of States Parties of BTWC proposed including Nipah virus in the list of animal pathogens. This paper describes an evaluation of Nipah virus as a biological agent for terrorism or warfare.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP013384

Entities

People

  • Ivan Jukic
  • Slavko Bokan
  • Zvonko Orehovec

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Factors
  • Biological Warfare
  • Biological Warfare Agents
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Encephalitis
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Infection
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Therapy
  • Viruses
  • Warfare
  • Wound Infections

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • International Relations and European Studies