Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why understanding biological weapons matters to medical and public health professionals -- Bioterrorism on the home front: a new challenge for American medicine -- Clinical presentation of inhalational anthrax following bioterrorism exposure: report of 2 surviving patients -- Death due to bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax: report of 2 patients -- Bioterrorism preparedness and response: clinicians and public health agencies as essential partners -- Fatal inhalational anthrax with unknown source of exposure in a 61-year-old woman in New York City -- Fatal inhalational anthrax in a 94-year-old Connecticut woman -- Cutaneous anthrax associated with microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and coagulopathy in a 7-month-old infant -- Anthrax as a biological weapon: updated recommendations for management -- Smallpox as a biological weapon -- Plague as a biological weapon -- Botulinum toxin as a biological weapon -- Tularemia as a biological weapon -- Hemorrhagic fever viruses as biological weapons -- Large-scale quarantine following biological terrorism in the United States. "This book is intended to guide medical and public health management following a biological weapons attack on civilian populations ... The chapters are papers previously published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that have been subsequently reviewed and updated for this book"--Page 1.