DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

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Subject: DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS       

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      narasite relations can be broken under artificial conditions, no-ably 'ny

      Dissemination of infectious ,nicroorganisms by the use of aerosols.
      n                                                                         I      Hygienic

      measures, based on the snreading pat-erns of infectious diseases, however



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      effective they may be in a natural outbreak               of disease,    probably would

      afford 'little nrotention in a biological oneration, when infective agents

      are   artificially disseminated.          In    reducing secondary effects of

      biological nnera@ions, however, hygienic measures may still lie of value,






      5.   In recen* sc4len-@l,@ic developments a large number of disease causing


      agents,   mainly viruses,    but    including ',nac@leria and nrotozoa, have been

      identified.      @.hese discoveries sometimes involve the causative agents of

      long-known diseases such as rubella.            On other occasions however, .new"

      liseases 'nave been described, the agents of which could also 'De t-aceri and

      identified.    Thus we are now acr.Tijainted with Ebola, r@assa,         M;irbiirg, HTLV-

      -@AV, H;int;.ian-v4        with Teginnella nnpiimonhilia infections,            and with

      oryptosnoridium.     Lerjionella bacteria, minute gram ne(jat4l@ip rods, have been

      shown to be trip cause of @on-4-ac @ever,            ;is well as the             of the

      mysterious enidemic of nneumonia that caused the death o' a number of

      Legionnaires attending a congress in Philadelnhia in 1976. @-he organism was

      snread to -he conference rooms by the air-conditioning system.                  It  is a

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Declassified = 17-DEC-1996