Meta Description: Bioterrorism has long been recognized as a threat to human beings, animals and agriculture. The world was awakened with a real case following September 11th 2001 in the U.S.A. with the anthrax-letter attacks. Bioterrorism is the deliberate use of living organisms or their byproducts (toxins) to inflict harm to susceptible humans, animals, plants, the environment or material by individuals, state-sponsored groups, insurgent/rebel, Doomsday/cult-type group, nonaligned terrorists, splinter groups, or lone offenders.

In order to cause societal panic or menace societal safety and stability. The motives behind bioterrorism can be political, ideological, religious, or criminal, and sometimes only for personal reprisal. It is different from biological warfare, which is also the use of living organisms or their byproducts (toxins) to inflict harm, but it has been used by armies for military purposes.

Both bioterrorism and biological warfare can have devastating effects on all kinds of biodiversity, including humans, animals, plants, and other life. They can also be directed against resources, for example water or food supplies and, in modern applications, against natural and manufactured materials. Other expressions, including biocrime (biological crime), bioattack (biological attack), biological incidence, biothreat (biological threat) and biowar (biological war) have also been used to describe bioterrorism or biological warfare.

For more information:

https://www.omicsonline.org/microbial-forensics-a-powerful-tool-for-pursuing-bioterrorism%20perpetrators-and-the-need-for-an-international-database-2157-2526.S3-007.php?aid=3792

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