Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare

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MEDICAL ASPECTS OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, Zygmunt Dembek Sr., ed., Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute-Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2007, 675 pages, $72.00. Also available on CD-ROM and printable PDF, see www.bordeninstitute.army.mil for details.

Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare is an authoritative and current version of Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare: Textbook of Military Medicine, Part I: Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty (Office of the Surgeon General Department of the Army, 1997).

The new edition is a single-source compendium focused primarily on important biological agents that have significant potential to …