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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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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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