Journal de bioterrorisme et de biodéfense

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Microbial Forensics as Tool for Investigating and Responding to Bioterrorism

Betancur Miranda

Bioterrorism is that the intentional dissemination of bio-warfare agents in associate extremely population to cause ill health or death. Being forensics plays a crucial role at intervals the investigation of bio-terror attacks. Usually this can be} often a replacement field of rhetorical science that is still at intervals the first stages of growth and faces Brobdingnagian theoretical and ethical obstacles. There’s a profound concern with current biotechnological developments that bacteria and viruses might even be genetically designed to vary them as biological weapons. Act of act of terrorism, like different nuclear weapons, has the potential to cause humanitarian disasters. This paper summarizes utterly completely different detection ways of bio-warfare agents besides lightweight the numerous phases of bioterror attacks through the investigative lens of being forensics.