2021-10-05
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A sad reality that we have to face when studying outbreak science is that sometimes groups of people use outbreaks intentionally to inflict harm on another group. We call this "weaponizing an outbreak", and it's the focus of this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science. In this episode we'll look at how different groups have weaponized outbreaks throughout history, and the consequences, and we'll discuss what we can learn from those cases to prevent bioweapon attacks in the future.
This episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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https://www.who.int/health-topics/biological-weapons#tab=tab_1
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article
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https://ucr.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/wmd/criminal-and-epidemiological-investigation-handbook
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