Infectious diseases kill quite seventeen million folks annually, nevertheless the biological agents accountable solely create headlines throughout alarming epidemics, just like the Ebola hemorrhagic fever eruption of 2014, or following a coup de main just like the 2001 anthrax letter attacks.
India currently has been susceptible to Chemical, Biological, tomography and Nuclear (CBRN) threat, on account of its distinctive geographic position. Biological threat is AN close at hand threat within the hands of a terrorist. the general public health system of our country is weighed down because of its gift role and bio-attack response isn't a priority space. This paper suggests that because the prime focus is on the chromium and N threats within the integrated CBRN readiness strategy which specialised and technical forces area unit required to affect a bio-threat; thus there's a necessity for a paradigm shift in policy. The rising field of bio-threat has to be delinked from the joint family of ‘CBRN’, with ensuant structural and purposeful changes. A separate specialised cadre has to be fashioned for addressing bio-threat, created from the pool of doctors and non-medical scientists from the AFMS and therefore the DRDO. Structural changes area unit required within the organization, to herald the resources of NCDC, capital of India for increased malady police work capability and creation of a bio-threat mitigation node within the AFMC, Pune.
A biological agent (also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biologic attack agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon) is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus that are often used purposefully as a weapon in bioterrorism or biological warfare (BW).[1] In addition to those living or replicating pathogens, toxins and biotoxins are conjointly enclosed among the bio-agents. quite one,200 totally different forms of doubtless weaponizable bio-agents are represented and studied to this point.