BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL TERRORISM: A Guide for Healthcare Providers and First Responders -- Copyright -- A QUICK REFERENCE FOR POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS (TEAR SHEET) -- A QUICK REFERENCE FOR CHEMICAL WEAPONS (TEAR SHEET) -- INTERNET RESOURCE -- A QUICK REFERENCE TELEPHONE NUMBERS (TEAR SHEET) -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- SECTION 1: BASIC BIOTERRORISM -- What Is Bioterrorism? -- Categorizing Biological Weapons -- Flulike Illness -- What Makes an Effective Weapon? -- Table 1: Comparison of Initial Symptoms of Potential Biological Weapons to Influenza (Flulike llness) -- Table 2: Common Biological Weapons and Their Survival Time in the Environment after Release -- Early Identification of a Bioterrorist Attack -- Personal Precautions -- Table 3: Signs That Suggest an Attack with a Biological Weapon -- SECTION 2: BIOLOGICAL WEAPON SYNDROMIC CROSS-REFERENCES -- Fever with Prominent Arthralgias -- Acute Hepatic Syndrome -- Hemorrhagic Diathesis -- Hilar Adenopathy or Widened Mediastinum -- Fever with Petechiae -- Cutaneous Lesions or Ulcerations -- Acute Respiratory Syndrome with Fever -- Acute Respiratory Syndrome without Fever -- Flulike Illness with Rash -- Fever with Lymphadenopathy -- Acute Neurologic Syndrome with Fever -- Acute Neurologic Syndrome without Fever -- Acute GI Syndrome with Fever -- Acute GI Syndrome without Fever -- SECTION 3: INDIVIDUAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPON DETAILED QUICK REFERENCES -- Aflatoxins -- Anthrax (Inhalational and Gastrointestinal) -- Anthrax (Cutaneous) -- Blastomycosis -- Botulism (Botulinum Toxins) -- Brucellosis -- Chikungunya -- Cholera -- Coccidioidomycosis -- Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever -- Dengue Fever (Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever) -- Domoic Acid (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) -- Ebola and Marburg Viruses.

Encephalitis, Viral (Venezuelan, Eastern, Western, St. Louis, Japanese, and West Nile Virus) -- Glanders -- Hantavirus -- Influenza -- Kyasanur Forest Disease -- Lassa Virus and the South American Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Legionellosis -- Leptospirosis -- Melioidosis -- Nipah Virus -- Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever -- Plague -- Psittacosis -- Q Fever -- Ricin and Abrin -- Rift Valley Fever -- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever -- Salmonellosis (Typhoid) -- Saxitoxin (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) -- Shigellosis -- Smallpox (information sheet) -- Smallpox (color atlas and visual guide) -- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B -- Tetrodotoxin -- Trichothecene (T-2) Mycotoxins -- Tularemia -- Typhus (Epidemic, Murine, and Scrub) -- Yellow Fever -- SECTION 4: BASIC CHEMICAL TERRORISM -- What Is Chemical Terrorism? -- Physical Properties of Chemical Weapons -- Protecting Yourself -- SECTION 5: CHEMICAL WEAPON SYNDROMIC CROSS-REFERENCES -- Prominent Skin Rash, Blistering, and/or Burns -- Prominent Pulmonary Symptoms -- Seizures and/or Sudden Coma -- Acute Hemolytic Anemia -- SECTION 6: INDIVIDUAL CHEMICAL WEAPON DETAILED QUICK REFERENCES -- Nerve Agents -- Cyanides (Blood Agents) -- Hydrogen Sulfide -- Pulmonary Agents -- Mustard -- Lewisite -- Phosgene Oxime (CX) -- Anhydrous Ammonia, Sulfur Dioxide, and Hydrogen Chloride -- Hydrogen Fluoride -- Arsine -- Lacrimators (Tear Gas) -- REFERENCE -- GLOSSSARY -- INDEX.