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Bio-terrorism

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BIO-TERRORISM T he use of infectious agents or other harmful biological or biochemical substances as weapon of terrorism. Bio-terrorism is terrorism by international release or dissemination of biological agent such as bacteria , virus and some types of fungi or toxins.These are also used to caused illness or death in people , animals or plants.Biological agents can be spread through air , water or through food.These agents are typically found in nature but could be mutated or altered to increase their ability to caused diseases , make them resistant to current medicine or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment.Bio-terrorism is an attractive weapon because biological agents are relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain than others. Military leaders , however ,have learned that as military asset.For military leaders it is difficult to use a bio-weapon in a way bio-weapon can not only affects the enemy but also friendly force. A biological weapon is u...