Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
The Importance of Distinguishing Between Natural and other Outbreaks of Disease....Pages 1-20
Outbreaks of Disease....Pages 21-29
The Agents of Concern....Pages 31-34
Natural Outbreaks of Disease: Communicable Disease Surveillance in the Czech Republic....Pages 35-39
Distinguishing between Natural Disease Outbreaks and Delmerate Attacks on Human Beings Using Biological Weapons....Pages 41-47
Characteristics of Natural Outbreaks of Crop Diseases....Pages 49-61
Distinguishing Natural and Unnatural Outbreaks of Animal Diseases....Pages 63-73
Detecting Anthrax: What We Learned from the 1979 Sverdlovsk Outbreak....Pages 75-85
Scientific Techniques to Distinguish Natural and other Outbreaks of Disease....Pages 87-92
Natural and other Biological Risks from a Medical Service Perspective....Pages 93-100
The Who Role in Surveillance and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases....Pages 101-109
Reporting of Outbreaks of Disease under BTWC Confidence-Building Measures....Pages 111-142
Possible Participation of the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector” in a National and Global Network for Distinguishing Outbreaks....Pages 143-150
Scientific and Technical Means of Distinguishing Between Natural and Other Outbreaks of Disease: An Overview of the ARW and a 2000 Postscript....Pages 151-167
Back Matter....Pages 169-171