Terror Agents

Emerging Areas in Emulsions, Eoams, Suspensions and Aerosols 

A somewhat different application of foam is in blast and fire suppression during attempts to deactivate, or intentionally destroy, suspected terrorist bombs. When such a device, or even a small explosive device used to destroy the suspected item, explodes severe damage can be caused by the compression wave emanating from the blast or from the fireball that may follow the blast. In Section 9.6, it was 

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Appendix C is a quick reference chart for signs and symptoms of exposure to chemical terrorism agents. The chart is only meant as a guide and is not to be all-inclusive. 

They are on the HHS Select Agents list, the USDA High Consequence list, the Australia Group Core list, and are listed as a Category A Potential Terrorism Agent by the CDC. 

It is on the Australia Group Core list and is listed as a Category B Potential Terrorism Agent... 

In 2004 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 53), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that the risks of occupational exposure to biological terrorism agents outweighed the advantages of embalming fatalities and recommended that the body should be buried without embalming. 

Rotz, L. D., Khan, A. S., Lillibridge, S. R., Ostroff, S. M., Hughes, J. M. (2002). Public health assessment of potential biological terrorism agents. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8, 225-230. 

Community education programs should be developed to inform residents about superwarfarin rodenticides and other household commercial chemicals with the potential to be used as chemical warfare or terror agents. Fact sheets may be one method of informing the pubhc. Identifying those at risk and when they should be informed may be a useful part of this education campaign - this may also improve security in industrial plants, and limit any access from outsiders in all industrial and storage facilities where flammable or highly toxic chemicals are stored, particularly livestock facilities. 

Three broad classes of warfare agents are considered organophosphate nerve agents (Newmark, 2007 Munro et al, 1994), the cyanides (Baskin et al, 2009), and a third general category that is less weaponized but whose effects are important as potential terror agents, the arsenics and ricin. 

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