"Smallpox
Biosecurity :
Preventing the Unthinkable"
Speakers
:
Ken
Alibek
Professor from the George Mason University, Virginia, USA
One-time scientific head of the civilian branch of the former Soviet
Union's offensive biological weapons program, and author of "Biohazard" :
How large is the threat of a deliberate
use of smallpox to global security ?
Riccardo Wittek
Associate Professor of the University of Lausanne
and former President of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety :
What is the state of preparedness worldwide
for a bioterrorist attack ?
Peter Jahrling
Principal Scientific Advisor at the US Army Medical Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases :
What would be the impact of a smallpox
epidemic on a population with low immunity
?
Monday
October 20, 2003, 14.00 to 15.30
