Biological agent | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-26

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00:02:21 1 Classifications
00:02:31 1.1 Operational
00:03:27 1.2 Legal
00:04:17 1.3 Regulatory
00:05:06 2 List of bio-agents of military importance
00:05:28 2.1 Bacterial bio-agents
00:05:38 2.2 Chlamydial bio-agents
00:05:48 2.3 Rickettsial bio-agents
00:05:58 2.4 Viral bio-agents
00:06:17 2.5 Mycotic bio-agents
00:06:27 2.6 Biological toxins
00:06:37 2.7 Biological vectors
00:06:46 2.8 Simulants
00:08:23 3 In popular culture
00:08:33 4 See also



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A biological agent—also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biological warfare agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon—is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus that can be used purposefully as a weapon in bioterrorism or biological warfare (BW). In addition to these living and/or replicating pathogens, toxins and biotoxins are also included among the bio-agents. More than 1,200 different kinds of potentially weaponizable bio-agents have been described and studied to date.
Biological agents have the ability to adversely affect human health in a variety of ways, ranging from relatively mild allergic reactions to serious medical conditions, including serious injury, as well as serious or permanent disability or even death. Many of these organisms are ubiquitous in the natural environment where they are found in water, soil, plants, or animals. Bio-agents may be amenable to "weaponization" to render them easier to deploy or disseminate. Genetic modification may enhance their incapacitating or lethal properties, or render them impervious to conventional treatments or preventives. Since many bio-agents reproduce rapidly and require minimal resources for propagation, they are also a potential danger in a wide variety of occupational settings.The Biological Weapons Convention (1972) is an international treaty banning the use or stockpiling of bio-agents; as of February 2015 there were 171 state signatories. Bio-agents are, however, widely studied for both defensive and general medical purposes under various biosafety levels and within biocontainment facilities throughout the world. In 2008, according to a U.S. Congressional Research Service report, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Taiwan were considered, with varying degrees of certainty, to be maintaining bio-agents in an offensive BW program capacity.