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Animals as sentinels of bioterrorism agents.
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We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature from 1966 to 2005 to determine whether animals could provide early warning of a bioterrorism attack, serve as markers for ongoing exposure risk, and amplify or propagate a bioterrorism outbreak. We found evidence that, for certain bioterrorism agents, pets, wildlife, or livestock could provide early warning and that for other agents, humans would likely manifest symptoms before illness could be detected in animals. After an acute attack, active surveillance of wild or domestic animal populations could help identify many…
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Animals as sentinels of bioterrorism agents.
...caused by bioterrorism agents and better...events in animals must be established...animals as "sentinels" of a human bioterrorism attack can...implications of bioterrorism attacks on...determine whether animals could be effective sentinels for particular ... |
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Animals' ills harbinger for humans? Project eyes bioterror 'sentinels'.(PAGE...
...coal mine, sick animals - cats, crows and...be early-warning sentinels of bioterrorism attacks, disease...mine' suggest that animals may be useful sentinels for human environmental...sensitive to many of the agents that are potential... |
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Animals are Sentinels of the Nation's Food Supply and Serve as Early Indicators...
...the health and care of animals, but also to explore the many ways that animals protect the nation...line of defense against bioterrorism and agroterrorism...of disease-causing agents that are candidates...zoonotic (transmitted from animals to humans) and must... |
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REPEAT/ Animals are Sentinels of the Nation's Food Supply and Serve as Early...
...the health and care of animals, but also to explore the many ways that animals protect the nation...line of defense against bioterrorism and agroterrorism...of disease-causing agents that are candidates...zoonotic (transmitted from animals to humans) and must... |
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Animals provide early warning of bioterrorism agents.
...UNIVERSITY: Animals provide early warning of bioterrorism agents(C)1994...could act as sentinels to provide...for certain bioterrorism agents, researchers...bioterrorist attack animals may be able...warning of a bioterrorism attack...animals as sentinels ... |
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First line of defense against bioterrorism rests with states, private...
...only session on bioterrorism for university...Hueston, because "animals can serve as sentinels for acts of bioterrorism." Because bioterrorism...acts may affect animals first, the students...humans. Those agents identified as having... |
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Purdue Project Could Help Pets Serve as Disease Watchdogs.
...the liver. Most animals and humans recover...events in companion animals that could signal...bird migration or bioterrorism. "We wanted to show that these animals could be used as sentinels of infectious agents and perhaps predict... |
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Purdue project could help pets serve as disease watchdogs.(EH Update)(Purdue...
...the liver. Most animals and humans recover...events in companion animals that could signal...bird migration or bioterrorism. "We wanted to show that these animals could be used as sentinels for infectious agents and perhaps predict... |
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Preparedness essential in light of agroterrorism threat.(Brief Article)
...detectors of future bioterrorism events. Being...the potential bioterrorism agents are zoonotic...both humans and animals, it is widely...well serve as sentinels for potential...the event of a bioterrorism attack. During... |
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Researchers developing 'sentinel plants' to warn of bioterrorism.
...threat of bioterrorism and weapons...biological agents. "Plants make good sentinels because they...Plants and animals detect and...with various agents. "By exposing...sensing what agents," he says...to act as sentinels in various... |
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