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Viruses of Bunya- and Togaviridae families have potential as bioterrorism agents.
2003 MAY 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Viruses belonging to the Bunya- and Togaviridae families have potential as bioterrorism agents.
According to recent research published in the journal Antiviral Research, "When considering viruses of potential importance as tools for bioterrorism, several viruses in the Bunya- and Togaviridae families have been cited. Among those in the Bunyaviridae family are Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, hanta, and sandfly fever viruses, listed in order of priority. Those particularly considered in the Togaviridae family are Venezuelan, eastern and western equine encephalitis viruses."
"Factors affecting the selection of these viruses are the ability for them to induce a fatal or seriously incapacitating illness, their ease of cultivation in order to prepare large volumes, their relative infectivity in human patients, their ability to be transmitted by aerosol, and the lack of measures available for their control," stated Robert W. Sidwell and Donald F. Smee at Utah State University. "Each factor is fully considered in this review."
The researchers related, "Vaccines for the control of infections induced by these viruses are in varying stages of development, ...
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