This essay proposes measures for "biosecurity," defined as "the effective implementation of measures that aim to prevent would-be terrorists, criminals, and spies from gaining access to dangerous pathogens and toxins.".
Whereas biosafety aims at protecting public health and environment from accidental exposure to biological agents, biosecurity deals with the prevention of misuse through loss, theft, diversion or intentional release of pathogens, toxins and any other biological materials..
"institutional and personal security measures and procedures designed to prevent the loss, theft, misuse, diversion or intentional release of pathogens, or parts of them, and toxin-producing organisms, as well as such toxins that are held, transferred and/or supplied by Biological Resource Centres"..
Biosafety provides policies and practices to prevent the unintentional or accidental release of specific biological agents and toxins, whereas biosecurity provides policies and practices to prevent the intentional or negligent release of biological materials or the acquisition of knowledge, tools, or techniques that .
Biosafety provides policies and practices to prevent the unintentional or accidental release of specific biological agents and toxins, whereas biosecurity provides policies and practices to prevent the intentional or negligent release of biological materials or the acquisition of knowledge, tools, or techniques that .
On the other hand, an effective biological threats assessment and management using biosecurity measures may prevent or reduce probability of deliberate release.
Based on lessons learned from history several preventive strategies against terrorism using weapons of biological warfare had been developed.
Monitoring and alarming biological threats can be accomplished through the use of multimodal analysis, early or rapid detection, field research and genome sequencing to identify new and previously identified pathogens, thereby strengthening biosafety and biosecurity threats (Hulme et al., 2020).
Based on that an appropriate prevention methods should be evaluated.
Biological safety or biosafety includes ,measures aimed at protecting people and the environment from the unintentional impact of biological agents.
It is rather related with prevention of incidental exposure, unintentional release, or accidental loss.
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Second Edition, takes a holistic approach to biosecurity, with coverage of pathogens, prevention, and response methodology.
It addresses these hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can use to prepare for and respond to such events.
U.S. government biodefense research laboratory
