Abstract
Biological Weapon (BW) agents are pathogens present in the nature that were included in weapons programs, but at
the end, they are just microorganisms that cause diseases around the globe.
In this paper, we will show the aspects we consider are involved in the biological agents’ epidemiology in South
America and with special focus in Argentina, using open sources information, from an Information Quality (IQ)
perspective.
In this sense, and after study the data obtained, we found out several IQ problems, such as, several IQ dimensions are
affected and cultural and organizational aspects deeply affect the disease reporting process.
This is a research in progress; there is a long way ahead in this journey that tries to understand both the epidemiology
of certain diseases and the disease reporting schema.
Given the fact that in this research we deal with national and supranational organizations information, we propose
some recommendations to them in order to improve their situation.