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Anthrax
* Most anthrax affects animals
  - hoof animals
  - causes infection
* Some anthrax infects cattle.
* Some anthrax kills bison
  - chimpanzees
* affects all mammals, including humans, though some species are more vulnerable than others
* also causes organ failure
  - is relatively easy and safe to handle
  - occurs in exotic wildlife such as hippos, elephants, and cape buffalo
* bacteria found in the environment which has appeared in animals in the past
  - sometimes used in biological warfare
  - that naturally infects sheep and other animals
* bacterial disease than can infect warm-blooded animals including humans
  - that can infect all warm blooded animals including man
* can also enter the human body through broken skin
  - be fatal even in microscopic amounts
  - form spores and remain dormant for decades
  - infect all warm-blooded animals, including man
  - then go dormant for several days
* causes a type of pneumonia, which can kill a person
  - pneumonia, and patients are treated with antibiotics
* comes out high on everyone's list because the spore form of the organism is so very stable.
* dangerous, infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
* deadly biological weapon.
  - contracted by warm-blooded animals
* disease normally associated with animals
  - plant-eating animals such as sheep and cattle
* disease of grazing animals caused by bacteria that can infect humans
  - humans as well as animals
* disease that most commonly appears as blood poisoning
  - normally afflicts animals, especially cattle and sheep
  - typically afflicts animals, especially sheep and cattle
  - usually affects animals, but humans who inhale the spores can be infected
  - which can kill people
* has a serious impact on the trade of animal products
  - four separate clinical forms
* highly infectious animal disease which can be transmitted to humans on contact
  - bacterial disease, capable of killing a person within a few days
  - lethal biological weapon
* incubates silently in the body for three days to several weeks after exposure.
* is almost always deadly among unprotected people
  - also the name of a grunge rock group
* is an acute bacterial disease which can be fatal for humans if untreated
  - infectious disease carried by spore-forming bacteria
* is an acute infectious disease caused by bacteria
  - by the spore forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis
  - by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis
  - ancient disease of livestock and humans known since biblical times
  - example of a bacterial pathogen
  - exception, it can remain in soil and contaminate areas for a long period
  - extremely deadly bacterium used in biological warfare
* is an infectious bacterial disease that can be used in biological, or germ, warfare
  - typically afflicts livestock
* is an infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis
  - the spores of Bacillus anthracis
  - that is lethal if inhaled
* is an infectious disease that normally affects animals, especially cattle and sheep
  - occurs naturally in livestock
  - usually afflicts only animals, especially cattle and sheep
  - infrequent and sporadic human infection in most industrialized countries
  - international concern because it reproduces oddly
  - occupational hazard in the three mainland countries
  - often-fatal infectious disease due to ingestion of spores
  - as deadly as nuclear weapons
  - bacilluses
  - bacterial infection
* is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacteria
  - a bacterium that can infect humans and animals
  - direct skin inoculation by B anthracis
* is caused by the bacterium bacillus anthracis
  - organism Bacillus anthracis
  - colorles, odorless, inexpensive to make and easy to transport
  - common in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, where most of Europe's heroin originates
* is considered the easiest germ weapon to make and use
  - most lethal of biological agents by the U.S. government
  - to be an extremely dangerous infectious disease
  - easy to produce, store and make into a weapon
* is extremely deadly but can be treated
  - found around the globe
  - indigenous in Zimbabwe
  - insects
  - located in post offices
  - most common in agricultural regions where it occurs in animals
  - odorless, tasteless and invisible
* is one of the deadliest and oldest diseases known to man
  - gravest biological agents in use today
* is one of the most common biological threat agents
  - effective and lethal bioweapons in existence
  - likely agents to be used as a weapon
  - present in the environment and can cause disease in livestock and wild animals
* is primarily a disease of domesticated and wild animals, particularly herbivorous animals
  - an occupational disease
  - produced by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis
* is spread by dustlike spores, which can be inhaled
  - primarily by aerosol
  - suspected of being responsible for a spate of deaths among heroin addicts in Europe
* is the greatest biological warfare threat faced by U.S. military personnel
  - number one weapon of choice in biological weapons for germ warfare
  - primary biological warfare threat faced by U.S. forces
  - weapon of choice for germ warfare
  - thought to be the most likely agent to be used in a bioterrorist event
  - treated with penicillin G or tetracycline
  - zoonotic, caused by horse, sheep and cattle
* is, by far, the easiest biological agent to produce and weaponize.
* kind of poster child for force health protection.
* lethal, biological gas weapon that often causes flu-like symptoms.
* livestock disease and man is the accidental host.
* looks like flour.
* naturally occurring bacteria found in domesticated animals
  - that, when inhaled, can cause death within a few days
  - bacterium in cattle, sheep and other hoofed animals
* naturally occurring disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis
  - with worldwide distribution
  - virus
* occurs where the environment is suitable to perpetuate the organism.
* potentially fatal disease that focuses on the skin, lungs and stomach and intestines.
* quarantinable disease because it can kill large numbers of animals in a short time.
* rapid and highly effective killer.
* rapidly spreads from the lungs to other organs, and is deadly if untreated.
* rare cause of death of animals in Victoria.
* remains the primary biological warfare threat to our forces.
* reportable disease in Minnesota
  - Texas
* serious infectious disease caused by a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis
  - threat under the biological warfare scenario
* silent killer that is extremely lethal, in both inhalational and intestinal anthrax.
* simply infests the body and destroys it ability to function.
* spore forming bacteria.
* spore-forming bacteria found in soil.
* spreads through airborne spores which are dormant microorganisms.
* unique bacterium that can form a spore.
* usually fatal disease with no symptoms observed
  - is susceptible to penicillin, doxycycline, and fluoroquinolones
* very deadly weapon that is relatively cheap and easy to make
  - rare disease in the United Kingdom
+ Reward:
  * In 2001, the US government offered a big reward of 2.5 million dollars for help in capturing the person who had sent anthrax in letters to a newspaper journalist and 2 senators. Anthrax is a disease which can kill people.