print email comment close Bioterror URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/ Description: This companion site to an episode of the PBS television series NOVA offers background information on the history, current status, and possible future of the use of communicable diseases as weapons of war. Highlights include a brief history of biowarfare, interviews with Russian and American former biowarriors, a guide to which nations are known to have explored bioweaponry, symptoms and treatment for eight of the likeliest biological agents, and future possibilities for defense against biowarfare. Author: Aguirre, Lauren, editor Publisher: WGBH-TV Extra Keywords germ Library of Congress Subject Headings: Biological warfare Biological weapons Bioterrorism LII Database Information: Record 4837 created by Blaine Waterman on 11/09/2001 Last modification on 08/23/2002 Published: 11/09/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4837