Maximising the Security and Development Benefits from the Biological and Toxin Weapons

by Dando, Malcolm R.; Klement, Cyril; Negut, Marian; Pearson, G. S.

• ISBN13: 9781402009136
• ISBN10: 1402009135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, while it is primarily a security treaty, does contain provisions for the promotion of technical cooperation and development. There is clearly a direct relationship between technical cooperation in regard to disease surveillance and reporting and the capability to distinguish between natural and deliberate outbreaks of disease. This book provides a series of expert contributions related to this key linkage between security and development in the rapidly growing biotechnology field. The book's 31 chapters are all written by experts who attended two NATO Advanced Research Workshops on "BTWC Security Implications of Human, Animal and Plant Epidemiology" and "Maximising the Security Benefits from International Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology" held in Slovakia and Romania at the turn of the Millennium.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Achieving Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention	1	(28)
Graham S. Pearson
PART I: OUTBREAKS OF DISEASE
Reporting Outbreaks of Human Diseases	29	(12)
Jack Woodhall
Reporting Outbreaks of Animal Diseases	41	(12)
Martin Hugh-Jones
Reporting Outbreaks of Plant Diseases	53	(10)
Paul Rogers
Epidemiological Data and Reporting: South American Realities, Problems and Perspectives	63	(34)
Roque Monteleone-Neto
Outbreaks of Disease: Current European Reporting	97	(24)
Philip van Dalen
Surveillance and Monitoring of Infectious Disease in the Slovak Republic	121	(4)
M. Avdicona
F. Hruba
Investigation of Outbreaks of Disease Under a Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention	125	(14)
Mark Wheelis
Investigations of Suspicious Outbreaks	139	(4)
Ben P. Steyn
Molecular Biological Techniques for Subspecies Identification: An Overview	143	(6)
David Sourdive
Henri Garrigue
Molecular Biological Techniques for Subspecies Identification: Immunological Techniques A Comparison	149	(12)
Kathryn Nixdorff
An Unusual Outbreak of West Nile Fever in Romania	161	(6)
Marian Negut
WHO Contribution to Global Surveillance of Microbial Threats	167	(12)
Ottorino Cosivi
PART II: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Maximizing the Security Benefits from International Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology	179	(10)
Karen Mossenlechner
Maximizing Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation in Microbiology and Biotechnology: Infrastructure, Regulations and Procedures	189	(10)
Julian P. Perry Robinson
Graham S. Pearson
Benefits from International Cooperation in Microbiology: An Overview	199	(10)
Kathryn Nixdorff
Benefits from Cooperation in Biotechnology: The Experience of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	209	(12)
Arturo Falaschi
Decio Ripandelli
Benefits from International Cooperation in Biosafety in Central and Eastern Europe	221	(26)
Piet van der Meer
Graham S. Pearson
Measures to Provide Biosafety at the Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology ``Vector''	247	(6)
E. N. Starkov
Slovakia: Biotechnology Transfer under BTWC Protocol and the Convention on Biological Diversity	253	(6)
Dezider Toth
The US Select Agent and Laboratory Registration Program	259	(14)
Jonathan R. Richmond
The Development of Biotechnology in Poland	273	(4)
Tomasz Twardowski
Czech Republic: The Development of Microbiology and Biotechnology in the Czech Republic During the Past 20 Years and Prospects for the Future	277	(10)
Jaroslav Spizek
Prospects of the SRC VB Vector International Collaboration in the Field of Emerging Infections and Biotechnology	287	(8)
L. S. Sandakhchiev
Good Manufacturing Practice and Licensed Products	295	(8)
Marian Negut
Approaches to the Introduction of the Quality System into the SRC VB ``Vector''	303	(6)
V. I. Masycheva
Industrial Aspects of Technical Co-Operation in Microbiology and Biotechnology	309	(10)
Karl Simpson
Databases, Networks and Clearing Houses	319	(24)
Mark Wheelis
Graham S. Pearson
Increasing Transparency and Building Confidence: The OPCW Experience	343	(8)
Magda Bauta
Building Peaceful Co-Operation into the BTWC Verification Protocol	351	(12)
Malcolm Dando
PART III: CONCLUDING REMARKS
Maximizing the Security Benefits from Technical Cooperation Under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention	363	(40)
Graham S. Pearson
Index	403