ANFS332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Government Accountability Office, Agro-Terrorism, Glanders
15 Dec 2016
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According to the government accountability office, long-distance live animal transport not only places countries at risk for catastrophic disease outbreaks, but it makes them vulnerable to bioterrorism as well. U. s. animal agriculture has been described as a parti(cid:272)ularly easy target, as (cid:862)o(cid:374)e of the pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)le threats for a(cid:374) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) atta(cid:272)k o(cid:374) this country,(cid:863) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to the u. Deputy e(cid:272)retary of agri(cid:272)ulture, a(cid:374)d also as a dire(cid:272)t attack on our citizenry. Historical perspective: agricultural resources have been considered potential targets of biological warfare or terrorism since world war i. Examples include the following: german operatives apparently infected horses that were being shipped to. Europe with anthrax and glanders during world war i: the japanese allegedly used anthrax and rinderpest against russia and mongolia during world war ii, britain accused germany of dropping cartons of colorado potato beetles in. In 1952, the mau mau killed 33 head of cattle at a kenyan mission station using.
