Inhalation Hazard from Reaerosolized Biological Agents: A Review

摘要

Biological Warfare (BW) agents have long been recognized as a potential threat totroops on the battlefield. In the past, most consideration has been given to the threat from the disseminated plume, or what is called the primary threat. As the plume disperses, the particles deposit on the ground. The deposited particle can then interact with the surface soil/dust particles. If the surface is disturbed, either by the wind or by human activities, these particles can again become airborne. In this report, we review the state of knowledge of the different processes that control the behavior and fate of the biological agent aerosol from the time of deposition to the time of resuspension, and we identify the gaps in the state of our knowledge.