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Article: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Smallpox, Anthrax Discussed As Bioterror Weapons.(Brief Article)
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- Virus Weekly
- Article date:
- January 15, 2002
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2002 JAN 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - C.J. Peters, director for the Center of Biodefense, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, and Steven Opal, Brown University School of Medicine, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, spoke at the 41st Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Meet The Experts session and reviewed the earlier session they chaired on pathogens as potential agents of biological warfare
Opal explained that the session focused on "...viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), Ebola virus, Lassa fever, as well as potential concerns about smallpox, its control and ...