Handbook on Biological Warfare Preparedness provides detailed information on biological warfare agents and their mode of transmission and spread. In addition, it explains methods of detection and medical countermeasures, including vaccine and post-exposure therapeutics, with specific sections detailing diseases, their transmission, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, vaccines, prevention and management. This book is useful reading for researchers and advanced students in toxicology, but it will also prove helpful for medical students, civil administration, medical doctors, first responders and security forces.

Biological warfare agents: History and modern-day relevance --Bacterial biological warfare agents -- Toxins as biological warfare agents -- Viral agents including threat from emerging viral infections -- Advance detection technologies for select biothreat agents -- Microfluidics application for detection of biological warfare agents -- Collection, storage, and transportation of samples for offsite analysis -- Medical management of diseases associated with biological warfare -- Protective equipment for protection against biological warfare agents -- Environmental sampling and biodecontamination — Recent progress, challenges, and future direction -- Biological and toxin warfare convention : current status and future prospects -- Next generation agents (synthetic agents) : emerging threats and challenges in detection, protection, and decontamination -- Genome information of BW agents and their application in biodefence -- Planning for protection of civilians against bioterrorism.