Bioterrorism and Public Health: A Comprehensive Analysis of Issues
Keywords:
Bioterrorism, Comprehensive, ‘terrorism’, bioterrorism, pertinentAbstract
In this research study the core area of research is ‘terrorism’, and the narrow area is ‘bioterrorism’ and its impact on Right to Public Health. As far as the main area of research is concerned being a general subject for research, there is no dearth of literature since scholarly literatures including books, legal documents, articles, and other research data are available as
a lot of research has already been carried out in this area. Whereas for the topic of bioterrorism, to conduct research is really challenging since it is an emerging, novel, and evolving area of law. It would be difficult to revise the existing legal measures dealing with bioterrorism in a scenario where there is no precise definition provided neither under domestic law nor under international law. It is ironical to note that even after the frequent occurrences of terrorist attacks happened and continuously happening all over the world the responsible organizations like United Nations and International Community failed to take
measures to combat the bioterrorist attacks by considering it merely as fanciful which will not happen in future. This may not be true since several official reports [1] revealed that terrorists are more resorting to use bioweapons for perpetuating fear considering the numerous advantages of ‘bioweapons. At the outset it would be pertinent to analyse the issue of the impact of ‘bioterrorism’ on public health.
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