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Bioterorism and problems with mass media in population awarness.
VENKRBCOVÁ, Klára
Bioterrorism is a deliberate abuse of bilogical agents with a view to bring on a human or animal illness, it can have military, religious or political connection. Biological weapons number among mass destruction weapons and their advantage is in their ineffectiveness on dead matter and ability to cause high mortality. Biological weapons are very various and budget-priced. Just a small amount can kill many people or contaminate a vast area for a long time, it all depends on qualities of the used biological agent. Biological agent can be spread in several ways, namely by aerosol inhalation, in an alimentary way otherwise by taking of with groceries, by exterior contamination by means of objects or linen and by means of vector (medium {--} insects) by blood suction. The aspiration of my work was to state the awareness level of inhabitants and I asume it was carried out. The first hypothesis {\clqq}General awareness level about bioterrorism is mininal`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted, fifty percent of the answers confirmed the thesis but fifty percent did not. The second hypothesis {\clqq}Awareness and interest in bioterrorism fall with the rising age.`` This was confirmed. The third hypothesis {\clqq}Media are exaggeratedly interested in this topic. This hypothesis wasn{\crq}t confirmed. The fourth hypothesis {\clqq}The Czech Republic is according to informants´ views ready for a bioterrorist attack but it isn{\crq}t imminent.`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted, as well as the first hypothesis it was confirmed from 50 % and confuted from 50 % . The fifth hypothesis {\clqq} People look for special information on bioterrorism most ofen in special literature and they get further information most ofen through the medium of television.`` This hypothesis was neither validated nor confuted. The sixth hypothesis {\clqq}The informants connect the planned build- up of the American counter rocket radar with the menace of bioterrorism.`` It was confuted.

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