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A Framework for Assessing the Health Hazard Posed by Bioaerosols

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Size: 100 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2008

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Committee on Determining a Standard Unit of Measure for Biological Aerosols, National Research Council
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Biological warfare agent (BWA) detectors are designed to provide alerts to military personnel of the presence of dangerous biological agents. Detecting such agents promptly makes it possible to minimize contamination and personnel exposure and initiate early treatment. It is also ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-8	(skim)
1 Introduction	9-14	(skim)
2 Exploring the Complexity of Health Risk	15-28	(skim)
3 Building the Framework for Evaluating Health Hazard	29-46	(skim)
4 Implications of BAULA for Detector Test and Evaluation	47-60	(skim)
5 Recommendations	61-64	(skim)
Bibliography	65-68	(skim)
Appendix A: Evaluating Detector Signals	69-78	(skim)
Appendix B: Statement of Task	79-80	(skim)
Appendix C: Committee Member Biographies	81-84	(skim)
Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations	85-86	(skim)

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Biological warfare agent (BWA) detectors are designed to provide alerts to military personnel of the presence of dangerous biological agents. Detecting such agents promptly makes it possible to minimize contamination and personnel exposure and initiate early treatment. It is also important, though, that detectors not raise an alarm when the situation does not warrant it.

The question considered in this book is whether Agent-Containing Particles per Liter of Air (ACPLA) is an appropriate unit of measure for use in the evaluation of aerosol detectors and whether a better, alternative measure can be developed.

The book finds that ACPLA alone cannot determine whether a health threat exists. In order to be useful and comparable across all biological agents and detection systems, measurements must ultimately be related to health hazard.

A Framework for Assessing the Health Hazard Posed by Bioaerosols outlines the possibility of a more complex, but more useful measurement framework that makes it possible to evaluate relative hazard by including agent identity and activity, particle size, and infectious dose.

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