Handbook of viral bioterrorism and biodefense

An overview on the use of a viral pathogen as a bioterrorism agent: why smallpox? (B. Mahy). Smallpox: a potential agent of bioterrorism (R.J. Whitley). Potential antiviral therapeutics for smallpox, monkeypox and other orthopoxvirus infections (R.O. Baker, M. Bray, J.W. Huggins). Smallpox: a potential agent of bioterrorism (R.J. Whitley). Therapy and short-term prophylaxis of poxvirus infections: historical background and perspectives (J. Neyts, E. de Clercq). In vitro activity of potential anti-poxvirus agents (E.R. Kern). A review of compounds exhibiting anti-orthopoxvirus activity in animal models (D.F. Smee, R.W. Sidwell). Defense against filoviruses as biological weapons (M. Bray). Molecular diagnostics of viral hemorrhagic fevers (including Lassa fever, Yellow fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever) (C. Drosten, B.M. Kummerer et al.). Arenaviruses other than Lassa virus (R.N. Charrel, X. de Lamballerie). Viruses of the bunya- and togaviridae families: potential as bioterrorism agents and means of control (R.W. Sidwell, D.F. Smee). Nipah virus - a potential agent of bioterrorism? (Sai-Kit Lam). Hantavirus - a potential agent of bioterrorism? (J.P. Clement). Tick-borne encephalitis (T.S. Gritsun, V.A. Lashkevich, E.A. Gould). The potential use of influenza virus as an agent for bioterrorism (R.M. Krug).