Bioterrorism
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Top 6 Agents of Concern (CDC)
Bioterrorism Agents[1]
Category A
Category B
- Ricin
- Brucellosis
- Epsilon toxin
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Staph enterotoxin B
- Typhus
- Glanders
- Melioidosis
- Food safety threats
- Water safety threats
- Viral encephalitis
Category C
- Influenza
- Yellow fever
- Tickborne hemorrhagic fever
- Tickborne encephalitis
- All these agents are classified as category A (most deadly) by the CDC[2]
- These disease still exist globally in both western and developed countries. Smallpox last naturally occurred in 1977[3]
Differential Diagnosis
Mass casualty incident
- Radiation exposure (disaster)
- Dirty bomb
- Bioterrorism
- Chemical weapons
- Mass shooting
- Natural Disaster (e.g. Hurricane, Earthquake, Tornado, Tsunami, etc)
- Unintentional large-scale incident (e.g. building collapse, train derailment, etc)
- Major pandemic
- Explosions