Johns Hopkins Magazine -- February 1999
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By Melissa Hendricks

Web sites on biological weapons and their medical management www.sipri.se/cbw/docs/bw-btwc-mainpage.html. The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. This Web site leads to a full text of the convention and a list of the nations that have signed or signed and ratified the treaty. Interestingly, both Iraq and Russia have signed and ratified the BTWC.

www.usamriid.army.mil is the Web site for the United States Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases. USAMRIID offers a course for physicians and other healthcare providers on the medical management of chemical and biological casualties. This site contains links to the handbook for that course, which features everything you ever wanted to know about diagnosing and treating anthrax, botulism, smallpox, cholera, plague, Q fever....

Many of the sources quoted in "Rx for Terror" express the urgent need to address the biological terrorism threat. In "The Great Superterrorism Scare" ( www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/ART4.htm), political scientist Ehud Sprinzak advocates a more conservative approach. His article first appeared in the journal Foreign Policy.

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