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Environment and Bio-Terrorism

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Environment is a dynamic system around humans, embracing all kind of living bodies (animal, vegetal, fungi and parasites, bacteria, viruses…) and natural elements as air, earth and water. Bio-terrorism interacts constantly with environment, in order to achieve its main goal: to put terror on humans using biological agents. Bio-terrorism deals with the environment as a source of bio-terrorism agents, as a means of bio-terrorism and as a target. These three interfaces bio-terrorism/environment lead to common possibilities to prevent bio-terrorism and protect environment, mainly within the one-health concept.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. French Military Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Marseille, France

    Stéphanie Watier-Grillot, Gabriel Bédubourg & Christian Hupin

  2. French Surgeon General Office, Paris, France

    Olivier Cabre & Jean-Paul Demoncheaux

  3. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation International Military Staff, Brussels, Belgium

    Benjamin Queyriaux

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Correspondence to Stéphanie Watier-Grillot .

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  1. Military Medical Headquarter, Ministry of Defence, Belgrade, Serbia

    Vladan Radosavljevic

  2. Faculty of Food Technology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Ines Banjari

  3. Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Goran Belojevic

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Watier-Grillot, S., Cabre, O., Bédubourg, G., Demoncheaux, JP., Hupin, C., Queyriaux, B. (2018). Environment and Bio-Terrorism. In: Radosavljevic, V., Banjari, I., Belojevic, G. (eds) Defence Against Bioterrorism. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1263-5_18

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