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Viral outbreaks, biosecurity, and preparing for mass casualty infectious diseases events /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perl, Trish M. (Editor), Maxwell, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, [2025]
Subjects:
Biosecurity.
Communicable diseases > Prevention.
Bioterrorism.
Epidemiology.
Epidemics.
Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control.
Mass Casualty Incidents > prevention & control.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives on bioterrorism and pandemics
  • A brief history of biological warfare and bioterrorism
  • Anthrax: Ancient surge and current biothreat
  • Tularemia: A bioterrorist threat and public health concern
  • Plague: The yersinia pestis infection
  • Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs): An archetype for risk management and high-consequence pathogens
  • Smallpox and mpox
  • Preparing for influenza epidemics and pandemics
  • Avian influenza
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  • Middle east respiratory syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • The age of synthetic biology: Changing biosecurity risks
  • Preparing for viral outbreaks and bioterrorism: The public health perspective
  • Prevention in healthcare and public health
  • Surveillance strategies
  • Infectious diseases transmission dynamics, modeling of outbreaks, and interventions
  • Risks and challenges for first responders managing patients infected with or exposed to high- consequence infectious diseases
  • Healthcare preparedness for infectious diseases mass casualty events, including bioterrorism, viral outbreaks and pandemics
  • Special care units
  • Diagnostics
  • Protecting the frontline and preventing transmission of high-consequence agents and other pathogens with pandemic potential in healthcare settings
  • Vaccination: Immunology and public health considerations
  • Vaccines
  • Therapeutics overview for agents of bioterrorism and viral outbreaks
  • Ethical issues in preparing for and responding to infectious outbreaks and bioterror attacks
  • Strategies for successful communications during health emergencies: Insights from journalists turned public relations experts
  • Recovery from biological disasters: Bioterrorism, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, and pandemics.