Doing a report on bioweapons?!
Question: Hi Im doing a report on bioweapons, Im wondering if viruses replicate in bioreactors what are the sterilization procedures in case of an outbreak or to kill the said virus in a bioreactor?
Answers: Hi Im doing a report on bioweapons, Im wondering if viruses replicate in bioreactors what are the sterilization procedures in case of an outbreak or to kill the said virus in a bioreactor?
Biological weapons can take many forms. These could be pasasitic, viral, toxic or bacterial. For further indication of which pathogens make effective biological weapons, one could look at the agents studied by the United States when it had an offensive biological weapons research program.
Under that program, which was discontinued in 1969, the United States produced the following to fill munitions: Bacillus anthracis, botulinum toxin, Francisella tularensis, Brucella suis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, staphylococcal enterotoxin B, and Coxiella burnetti.
As a further indication of which pathogens have the requisite physical characteristics to make good biological weapons, one need only look next at the agents that former Soviet Union biological weapons experts considered likely candidates.
The agents included smallpox, plague, anthrax, botulinum toxin, equine encephalitis viruses, tularemia, Q fever, Marburg, melioidosis, and typhus.
Criteria such as infectivity and toxicity, environmental stability, ease of large-scale production, and disease severity were used in determining which agents had a high probability of use.
Anthrax remains the most viable and deadly.
Strerilization proceedures will vary with the agent used.
Decontamination can range from using fullers earth to consuming antimicrobial agents like New Silver Solution.
Fuller's earth is used by military and civil emergency service personnel to decontaminate the clothing and equipment of soldiers and CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear) responders who have been contaminated with chemical agents.
New Silver Solution is shortly to be stockpiled by the US Military against bio-terrorism and disease outbreak.
http://www.mrsamedical.com/newsilversolu...
New Silver Solution is non-toxic, has no known side-effects and has a very broad spectrum killing ability against infectious diseases.
It can also be used as a surfectant/disinfectant aginst most pathogenic diseases.