DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

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Subject: DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS       

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      main factors which determine the natural epidemiological :)attern.                           For

      examnle, the cycle of the Vellow Fever infection can be closed because                       the

      virus is adapted to certain snec4@es which @ee(-i on the infected host.                      @'he

      virus mus@ mul@linly in the vector before the latter becomes infective. As a

      second e3ramr)le bubonic T-)Iag,,ae show--, the characteristic, T-)attern of a zoonosi--,

      which becomes a hazard for man when the nathogen, circulating in the

      sylvat4-c cycle, passes into the iirbanic. cvcle.               Here the animal reservoir

      ',domestic rat) lives        in close Proximity to the human community where the

      intermediate vector (rat flea) can be transferred to man.




      .14,                                                             -,nread these infections
             It           be. argued @ha@ an           attempt to

      delibi?.ratellv could be effective only if the conditions of the natural

      nattern are fulfilled, in other words, if ;in epidemiological model                    could be

      artificially Drodiicen.          @his would set considerable limits to                 its use

      %'considering the natural mode of snread of certain Pathogens                          used as

      biological agents).          For 4nstance the tactical 'easi'nil'@tv of               sr)reariing

      yellow Fever in Western 7iironp by the use o4 i.nfe(7terl mo-,cruitos Would be

      doubtful, because the sneri@@ic intermediate vector belong5 @n Paiiatori;tl

      regions and nrobablv would not Aitr@Tivp @n the Weste-n Euronean climate.

      ConserTti.ent'4v, -he natural infectious cycle               not easily be reprotitic.Pfi.



owever, that            certain natural -)att-prns in host-

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Declassified = 17-DEC-1996