DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

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Subject: DETECTION OF MEDICAL DEFENSE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS       

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          nroducpd a disease with a short incubation Deriod and a rickettsial

          organism nroducing one with a long incubation neriod,         The ,iiriis

          disease would not -esnond to antibiotics.       Thus, snpcific therapy

          might be withheld from the second illness since it was not recognised

          as being due to a different organism.     These considerations jxistify

          the expectation that the effects of the dissemination of agents in an

          artificially produced aerosol, though unpredictable, may be very

          serious.




          f,   Owing to the variability and limited controllability of these

          various factors, the effects of an aerosol attac.@ cannot he confined

          strictl@v to a Previously designated target area.     This, in addition

          to the delayed effec@ (incubation period) and the risk of secondary

          -snread, if long-r)ersi-stent or transmissible agents are used, accounts

          fo- the general acceptance of biological weanons as being primarily

          useful for strategic nurdosps, Tactical or terrorist use, however,

          Cannot be ruled out.






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          g. Tf a nontransmissiblp and nonners4@stent agent were disseminated,

          the effects would be confined to a snecific time T-)eriod, and there

          would be !--'t-Ile risk of ran'-d Pnidpmic snread.   Long term effects,

          however, iriight: oc-ri-ir, The significance of ecological factors in such

          a   4                    on the Possibility tha@ certain Potential
                        is

          biological agents are -he causative organisms of zoonoses, in which

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Declassified = 17-DEC-1996