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Module -V
Biological Warfare
Warfare and
Its Types
• The means of delivery of biological warfare agents and their routes of entry into
human body.

Terminal Exercises

1. Explain the following:
Note
(a) Biological Agent
(b) Aerosol

(c) Bacteria as biological agents
2. What is meant by the Sensitivity to Environment of biological agents?

3. Explain the various delivery methods of BW agent.

Answers to Intext Questions

13.1
1. (a) small particles (liquid or solid) in air like mist and smoke.

(b) Micro organism which causes disease in men, plants or animals.
2. Toxins are metabolic products of bacteria. They cause poisoning of organism.

13.2

1. (a) Bacteria, Rickettsia, Virus and Fungi.

(b) Rickettsia
(c) 24
(d) Spores

2. (i) Infectivity (ii) Virulence (iii) Incubation

(iv) Trans missibility (v) Lethality

13.3

1. (a) Vectors
(b) Breathing or respiratory
(c) Spray tanks

2. (i) Skin (ii) Digestive Tract (iii) Respiratory

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