Forensics in Bioterrorism

Terrorism can be defined as any method employed to threaten and terrorize large groups of individuals, governments, armies, or society as a whole. Thus, one may accept, in the milieu of historical analysis of bioterrorism, that it involves the usage of different biological agents by any person or groups, including political or military personnel and official states, motivated by various reasons (be they political, religious, or other ideological objectives), in order to attain such consequences (Barras and Greub, Clin Microbiol Infect 20:497–502, 2014). Bioterrorism covers a very broad spectrum of issues, from catastrophic terrorism with mass casualties, to microevents via biological agents, which leads to various results like civil conflict, disturbance, illness, infirmities, and death (Barras and Greub, Clin Microbiol Infect 20:497–502, 2014).