RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Anticipating smallpox as a bioterrorist weapon
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 255
OP 259
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-3-255
VO 3
IS 3
A1 Philip P Mortimer
YR 2003
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/3/255.abstract
AB The treat of bioterrorism means it is important to be able to diagnose smallpox. The responsibility for the initial recognition of cases lies with clinicians, and early diagnosis is the key to the successful control of an outbreak. Unless rapidly contained, a bioterrorist release of smallpox would constitute not just a national but a global threat to health. This brief review sets smallpox in its modern context as an infection potentially spread by bioterrorists and recommends sources of information from the twentieth century that will assist clinicians in diagnosing the disease.