Author: Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: efficacy, research, program, safety, vaccine, cdc, anthrax, assessment
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-11-27
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0309086264
ISBN-13: 9780309086264

Report of the Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program and the Medical Follow-up Agency. Reflects the final results of the committee’s detailed deliberations. Softcover.

Author: Daniel Farb
Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare
Keywords: workers, public, health, anthrax, ems, emergency, doctors, handle, threat, allied, guidebook, healthcare, officers, bioterrorism, nurses
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594912653
ISBN-13: 9781594912658

Anthrax has already been used as an instrument of bioterror, is a significant danger now, and is usually fatal in its inhalational form. Bioterrorism Anthrax teaches you about the organism that causes anthrax, its transmission and prevention, its laboratory diagnosis, its clinical manifestations and diagnosis, its treatment, and the bioterror parameters of the disease. The book is geared to health care workers, but is clear enough for the general public to benefit. Approved for 3 national nursing contact hours--requires purchase of separate test included at the end of the book. Those readers w

Author: T.M. Koehler
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: immunology, microbiology, topics, current, anthrax
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2002-09-17
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540434976
ISBN-13: 9783540434979

Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals, including humans. Depending upon the route of entry of B. anthracis spores, infection can result in cutaneous lesions, which are readily treatable with antibiotics, or systemic lethal disease, which is nearly always fatal. The continuing worldwide incidence of anthrax in animal populations, the risk of human infection associated with animal outbreaks, and the threat of use of B. anthracis as a biological weapon warrant continued investigation of this organisms and its virulence mechanims. Furthermore, B. anthracis is an excellent model system f

Author: Philipp Sarasin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: fantasy, fact, bioterror, anthrax
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0674023463
ISBN-13: 9780674023468

The potential for creating and using biological weapons to wreak havoc is an urgent concern not just in America, but worldwide. In fact, many security experts believe that the next act of widespread terrorism will likely come from a weapon of biochemical means. In Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy, Philipp Sarasin explores the real threats of biological weapons--in contrast to the idea of biological substances as nebulous agents of terror--by analyzing the famous anthrax scares that occurred in the United States in 2001. Basing his analysis on government documents and media coverage

Author: Janet M. Decker
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: epidemics, diseases, deadly, anthrax
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0791073025
ISBN-13: 9780791073025

Author: Leonard A. Cole
Publisher: Natl Academy of Science / Joseph Henry Pres
Keywords: story, detective, medical, letters, anthrax
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 030908881X
ISBN-13: 9780309088817

At 2:00am on October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens entered a hospital emergency room. He was feverish, nauseated, and barely conscious. Notations on his admitting chart indicate that he was "not oriented to person, place, or time." Perplexed by the sudden and especially severe onset of his symptoms, doctors ran a variety of tests. As armies of bacterial agents attacked and shut down every major organ in Bob Stevens’s system, doctors quickly accumulated and analyzed medical data, fitting the pieces of this complicated puzzle together to arrive at a stunning diagnosis. Bob Stevens had anthrax

Author: Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: work, safe, vaccine, anthrax
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-04-18
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0309083095
ISBN-13: 9780309083096

Summary of the Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine which was congressionally mandated for the Department of Defense. Committee reviewed data and assessed the efforts to resolve manufacturing issues and resume production and distribution of the vaccine. Softcover.