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- 1. Future Biological Weapons A Career as a Defense Biological Analyst A Career as Biotechnological Analyst Kelly McNeal American Military University 12/14/2017 Foundations of College Learning Coll100
- 2. Evaluating Threats 1. Detection Strategies 2. Control Strategies 3. Prevention Strategies Bioterrorism: Implications for the Clinical Microbiologist Wolfgang Klietmann, and Kathryn L. Ruoff 2004
- 3. Problems In Our System 1. Government control and Regulation 2. Current Technology 3. Inability to control threats Bioweapons, biodiversity, and ecocide: Potential effects of biological weapons on biological diversity Dudley, Joseph P Bioscience Oxford Vol. 52, Iss. 7, Jul 2002
- 4. Difficulty in Creation 1. Lack of technical Knowledge 2. Difficulty in discrimination 3. Lack of funds in production
- 5. Truth is stranger than fiction: Spreading a biological disease is as easy as a chem trail in action.
- 6. Fungus: A friend or enemy? They are known to be slow killers and wipe out entire populations.
- 7. Bacteria These guys live everywhere
- 9. Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Vaccines Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. A Draft for Discussion Prepared by The Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. 4/2017
- 11. The costs of being safe Pay now or later? Have we ever benefited From waiting for the Attack to come to us? Insurance for our future. Policies of International Cooperation EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnology Vol.2 No 3, Issue of December 15, 1999.
- 12. Don’t forget, what we do now will make a difference in our future. Biological weapons will be the future of all wars. Robots and drones and people are expensive and require a lot of work and maintenance. Viruses are cheap, and can be numerous in variety. If you were the enemy which would you chose?
- 13. Policies of International Cooperation EJB Electronic Journal of Biotechnology Vol.2 No 3, Issue of December 15, 1999 Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Vaccines Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. A Draft for Discussion Prepared by The Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. 4/2017 Bioweapons, biodiversity, and ecocide: Potential effects of biological weapons on biological diversity Dudley, Joseph P Bioscience Oxford Vol. 52, Iss. 7, Jul 2002 Bioterrorism: Implications for the Clinical Microbiologist Wolfgang Klietmann, and Kathryn L. Ruoff 2004 References
Editor's Notes
- What is a world without war? Well, That would be a nice thought for the optimists, but I remain skeptical. And I am here to help explore how to fight and defend ourselves against biological weapons of mass destruction for the future.
- Most problems occur with detection. So many viruses are created that detection is very difficult unless you are looking at something very specific. In order to detect something that is causing a disease, there must be symptoms that are noticeable. Often , there are no symptoms in the beginning, leading to a strong infection later on that is difficult to control. In order to control a biological threat, it is best to have analysis done on random samples of people to see if any new threats have occurred. The second would be to have ready made vaccinations and cures for all threats within the vicinity. To Prevent threats, we can monitor all activities in local and foreign laboratories using espionage and intelligence recovery processes. The biological agents thought to be the most likely weapons of bioterrorists include B. anthracis (anthrax),Francisella tularensis (tularemia), Yersinia pestis (plague), variola virus (smallpox)
- The main problem with controlling viruses and bacteria along with other threats is due to our system of laws pertaining to biotechnological regulation. Since there are no patents allowed to new DNA discoveries and processes, there is no way to determine who might be creating a new virus or disease in their laboratory. There is no government monitoring of individual laboratories for DNA recombination, RNA transcription and translations, or RNA sequencing. Another problem with our system is our currently technology. Britain, Korea, and Australia all lead genetic research ahead of the US. As a result many new sequences can be created faster and new cures developed more efficiently. Our inability to control threats has lead our government to dwindle in it’s research and funding for biological weapons. It is important to emphasize that bioterrorist attacks against livestock or crops do not require access to weaponized diseases or laboratory cultures of disease organisms, nor do they involve organisms that may cause disease in humans.
- Most of the difficulty in creating new weapons is that we don’t have enough educated biotechnologists in our country. We also have a difficult time understanding the difference between a harmful virus and a non-harmful one due to lack of sequencing products and lack of people available to translate sequencing. Although the US spent over 5 billion dollars in Nanotechnology, what we produced is not comparable to what we spent. If we had invested the same amount in biological weapons, we would be ahead of other countries in genetic developments.
- Chem trails are simply planes that carry pathogens and distribute it in the air where it can fall down as rain or dust. These are the easiest way to spread a disease. Rats, mosquitos, and human point of contact transmissions can also spread disease, but air-borne pathogens are the easiest to spread.
- We don’t just eat them or hallucinate on them. They can be used as medicine or as poisons. Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that can function independently from a species. They are slow to spread but can be difficult to cure. They can take months to cure, and infect the brain, organs, and other body parts as well as take up oxygen and nutrients from the body to reproduce. In order to get rid of a fungus the blood must be treated. Surgery rarely works in a fungal infection as fungi are not always located in one place.They will often stay latent in the body with no symptoms and then attack quickly and spread within days. Fungus has been known to infect all organisms and many are resistant to anti-fungal treatments. To modify an existing fungi, only mutagenic reproduction is needed, as splicing and recombining fungus genes is too complicated and time consuming. Fungus can mutate with the help of chemical treatments and environmental regulation.
- Bacteria are RNA dependent viral carriers. In order to kill a bacteria, the best things to use are antibiotics like tetracyclines and penicillins, or a bacteriaphage, which is a virus that infects a bacteria. Bacteria can generally spread very fast, and cause many symptoms early on, so easier to detect. The problem with bacteria is if you don’t kill them all, you may get a re-infection. Also, bacteria often mutate causing current cures ineffective. The black death was caused by a simple bacteria. During this time only .2% of the population in Europe were immune to it’s effects. In general, about 5% of people are immune to effective bacteria. Also, Ebola and Rabies has been known to kill within 3 days of contraction, and is usually not curable in over 95% of patients. Some people are able to survive if caught early enough, but those numbers only go down to 70%
- Viruses are the most diverse of all pathogens, although rarely infectious. They can only be killed if their protein shells are destroyed, or their RNA or DNA cannot be duplicated. Viruses are species specific, and only infect 1 species. There are exceptions to this rule, but not many. Viruses can kill off entire populations, such as the H1N1 virus, or the deadly influenza virus which happens often at cold temperatures. The reason this is has nothing to do with the human immune system, contrary to most belief, but because the virus is able to survive easier in dry cold climates. Viral protein shells vary greatly along with their genetic matrix. Our bodies create immunities once we are infected and the library database is stored in our bone marrow. Viruses are very easy to create. By combining only 3 longer sequences in the matrix of ebola with influenza, one can easily make ebola airborne, and therefore easier to spread. Ebola has no known cure at this time.
- The easiest way to prevent a disease is to limit exposure, wear protective clothing, and work in isolated clean rooms. Heating rooms to over 140 degrees farenheit can also help control outbrakes. The U.S. Congress funds the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) to build and strengthen national preparedness for public health emergencies caused by natural, accidental, or intentional events.
- Systems are being designed now to sequence and detect any known pathogen in the body. However, these are more complicated than simple programs and take up a lot of data. In order to create these programs, we must have large libraries that can store in the information and protect sensitive information from leaking. These systems often use pearl programming, and require a separate degree in computer software programming to work in this area. The evolution of chemical and biological weapons is broadly categorised into four phases. World War I saw the introduction of the first phase, in which gaseous chemicals like chlorine and phosgene were used in Ypres. The second phase ushered in the era of the use of nerve agents like tabun, a cholinesterase inhibitor, and the beginnings of the anthrax and the plague bombs in World War II. The Vietnam War in 1970 constituted the third phase which was characterised by the use of lethal chemical agents , or. Agent Orange, a mix of herbicides stimulating hormonal function resulting in defoliation and crop destruction. This phase included also the use of the new group of Novichok and mid-spectrum agents that possess the characteristics of chemical and biological agents such as auxins, bioregulators, and physiologically active compounds. Concern has been expressed in regard to the handling and disposal of these mid-spectrum agents by "chemobio " experts rather than by biologists The fourth phase coincides with the era of the biotechnological revolution and the use of genetic engineering. Gene-designed organisms can be used to produce a wide variety of potential bioweapons such as: organisms functioning as microscopic factories producing a toxin, venom or bioregulator organisms with enhanced aerosol and environmental stability organisms resistant to antibiotics, routine vaccines, and therapeutics organisms with altered immunologic profiles that do not match known identification and diagnostic indices organisms that escape detection by antibody-based sensor systems
- During peacetime, research can range to a million to billions of dollars. Personal salaries can range quite a bit it costs 1 thousand dollars to sequence a human genome, about 300 per sequence for a regular viral genome, depending on how long the strand is To explore currently biological weapons, the government could spend about 5 billion dollars within the next 5 years to compete with other developed countries in new developments.
- If you don’t think that scary future of biotechnology will ever come ask yourself the following questions: have we ever not developed something due to moral reasons not to? 100 years ago, did anyone believe we would have robots, drones, internet, iphones, or gmos? What about 50 years ago? 20? Don’t forget. Our science is our responsibility, our future.