Endemic Disease in Afghanistan: How an Improved Biosecurity Framework Could Alleviate the Threat to U.S. Troops
As it is currently structured, Afghanistans biosecurity framework is weak and offers little to no protection to US troops against the threat of either infectious disease outbreaks or a biological weapons attack by terrorists. If fact, the only legitimate biosecurity practice of the Afghanistan government is to respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases. Such responses are debilitated by a devastated infrastructure, harsh and often times impassable landscape, and non-compliance by Afghan citizens.5 As such, US troops (and, indeed, Afghan citizens) are left susceptible to these endemic diseases to a degree beyond their own control. I believe an alternative biosecurity framework could be implemented that would alleviate this threat.6 Because Afghanistan remains a decentralized and tribal society, the crux of this proposal is that biosecurity measures are to be reallocated to the local, tribal level. I will further expound in greater detail on the reasons for this proposal in section four below.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction: Volume 2 of the Journal of Biosecurity, Biosafety & Biodefense Law
- Global Biosecurity and Intelligence Challenges in Policy and Law
- Endemic Disease in Afghanistan: How an Improved Biosecurity Framework Could Alleviate the Threat to U.S. Troops
- BioIntel: Leveraging Information to Prevent Biological Weapons Attacks
- International Health and Intelligence Gathering: One in the Same or Rival Factions?
- Cold Cooperation: Biodevelopment and The Legal Landscape
- Tug of War? A Jurisdictional Analysis of WHO and Interpol
- Regulatory Frameworks in Global Biosecurity Threats to Food and Water
- Public Water Supplies in the United States and the European Union: International Security Procedures and Vulnerabilities
- International Food Regulations: Susceptibility to Deliberate Contamination
- France and a Biosecurity Perspective
- International Bioterrorism Search and Seizure Issues: A Comparative Analysis of American and French Search and Seizure Law as it Relates to the Global War on Terror
- The Plague in Modern Times and the Role of Law
- Biological Weapons Convention Perspectives in Law and Social Sciences
- The Biological Weapons Convention: Creation and Problems with Enforcement
- A Survey of Priorities and Impediments for a Biosecurity Code of Conduct as a Confidence Building Measure for the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction: Volume 2 of the Journal of Biosecurity, Biosafety & Biodefense Law
- Global Biosecurity and Intelligence Challenges in Policy and Law
- Endemic Disease in Afghanistan: How an Improved Biosecurity Framework Could Alleviate the Threat to U.S. Troops
- BioIntel: Leveraging Information to Prevent Biological Weapons Attacks
- International Health and Intelligence Gathering: One in the Same or Rival Factions?
- Cold Cooperation: Biodevelopment and The Legal Landscape
- Tug of War? A Jurisdictional Analysis of WHO and Interpol
- Regulatory Frameworks in Global Biosecurity Threats to Food and Water
- Public Water Supplies in the United States and the European Union: International Security Procedures and Vulnerabilities
- International Food Regulations: Susceptibility to Deliberate Contamination
- France and a Biosecurity Perspective
- International Bioterrorism Search and Seizure Issues: A Comparative Analysis of American and French Search and Seizure Law as it Relates to the Global War on Terror
- The Plague in Modern Times and the Role of Law
- Biological Weapons Convention Perspectives in Law and Social Sciences
- The Biological Weapons Convention: Creation and Problems with Enforcement
- A Survey of Priorities and Impediments for a Biosecurity Code of Conduct as a Confidence Building Measure for the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention
