How To Use Anthrax In A Sentence
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This scenario was as unsubstantial as most of the claims made by campaign groups about the potential danger that anthrax could be easily used as a bio-weapon.
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The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
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Second, there is an additive in that anthrax, bentonite, which is used to cause the anthrax to not stick together, and float in the air.
Hullabaloo
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The spores transform into the anthrax bacteria, which produce a toxin that can be fatal to humans and animals.
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He wanted to assure the public that by reopening this building there is to danger to anyone in the area being affected by anthrax.
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Gastrointestinal anthrax is characterized by severe abdominal pain followed by fever and signs of septicemia.
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The young woman had acquired (right after receiving her fourth -- mandatory -- anthrax shot) a shockingly precipitous mystery disease, eventually diagnosed as a bizarrely speeded-up form of ametropic lateral sclerosis -- she lost in three months the amount of muscle function a middle aged ALS sufferer would lose in four years.
Sheila Weller: In This Case, A Soldier Was Treated Beautifully at Walter Reed
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The spores that were found in Dr. Ivins's office and in a men's changing area were far from the biocontainment lab, where much of the military's anthrax work was under way.
FBI Used DNA to Link
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Protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis is the central moiety of the anthrax toxin complex and it elicits antibody response useful for serodiagnosis of the disease.
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Since the events of September 11, and with the ambiguous source of anthrax attacks, there have been concerns of suspect packages.
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Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, smallpox, rubella, measles and anthrax.
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A man is in intensive care after he inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal hides that were to be made into drums.
Times, Sunday Times
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The next year, shopping at Home Depot for some army ant anthrax, I saw the bug zappers for sale, then slapped my forehead and got out my checkbook.
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The BSM-2000's detection method for detecting anthrax can also be used for detecting C. difficile, which is also a spore forming bacteria," said Mr. Amir Ettehadieh, UNDT's Director of Research and Development.
News
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He added that people suffering from cutaneous anthrax would develop carbuncles on their skin within 10 days after first contact.
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He revealed that troops were given more than 20 jabs, including those for anthrax, cholera, diphtheria, hepatitis, plague, polio, tetanus, typhoid, yellow fever and tuberculosis.
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As the anthrax example demonstrates, our own investment in weapons of mass destruction can easily turn into our own undoing.
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Are afraid to actually touch the papers, because they're afraid that anthrax can be communicated.
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High temperatures or intense radiation can destroy chemical or biological agents such as VX nerve gas or weaponized anthrax.
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A man is in intensive care after he inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal hides that were to be made into drums.
Times, Sunday Times
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The laboratory, which is designed to cover the entire South Caucasus region, will be the first line of defense in stopping zoogenic diseases, such as anthrax, foot and mouth disease, and brucellosis, which can easily spread from animals to humans.
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Others questioned myriad technical claims and suppositions in the report that led to the government's conclusion that the trailers were germ labs that could be used to cook up anthrax or other bioweapons.
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House flies are suspected of transmitting at least 65 human diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, food poisoning, pinworms, hookworms, and some tapeworms.
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Experts analysing the anthrax used in the US attacks are comparing its DNA with a library of strains collected worldwide.
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At the end of 1945, five million anthrax-infected cattle cakes were incinerated in one of Porton Down's furnaces.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Category A agents are those that cause diseases considered to pose the greatest risk to national security: anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism, tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fevers.
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You could put anthrax in a form of aerosolization that can have a major impact if you expose large numbers of people to it.
'The Challenge is to Stay Vigilant'
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Although any toxin or infectious agent could in theory be weaponised, the WHO believes that there are only five diseases likely to be used in a biological weapon: anthrax, botulism, smallpox, plague and tularaemia.
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A man is in intensive care after he inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal hides that were to be made into drums.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smallpox virus (scientific name variola major) would be a "good" biological warfare agent because it is unusually robust, can be disseminated through the air as an inhalable aerosol to infect people over a large area, and -- unlike anthrax -- is contagious from one person to another.
Scared Of Smallpox
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In April 2002, researchers noticed an anthrax-laced deposit on the outside of a flask outside the biocontainment area.
In Anthrax Case, Hindsight
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He tells me they have found what he calls a suspicious letter in one of the offices in the suite of offices of Senator Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, however not in the Hart office budding. where that other letter that was anthrax-laced was found back in October.
CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2002
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Even if there is anthrax in the envelope, it's very hard to actually get what is known as cutaneous anthrax.
CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2001
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And then you have three cases of cutaneous, that is the skin form, of anthrax in New York.
CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2001
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He was the first to use vaccines for rabies, anthrax and chicken cholera.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, with the new risks of bioterrorism, emergency physicians need to lead in the early diagnosis of illnesses such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularaemia, and botulism.
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ARENA: Investigators were pretty convinced that whoever the Anthrax killer was, that that person had to have a scientific background because the Anthrax was what they called weapons grade and very hard to make, Heidi.
CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008
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The CDC provided two treatment regimens for extended protection against anthrax.
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Many countries currently have weaponized anthrax, and many others are trying to acquire it.
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Second generation vaccines against anthrax, smallpox, and plague are being developed, and vaccines against other agents of bioterrorism such as the haemorrhagic fever viruses and others are also in development.
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Don't go giving me some kinda awful cow disease like anthrax or glanders or aftosa....
"She gave a loose, flinging shrug that tersely conveyed disbelief, fury and sadness. It was an editorial in itself."
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At first, bioterrorism - whether it's inhalation anthrax, smallpox, pneumonic plague or something else entirely - will probably feel like the flu.
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On autopsy, the cause looked for all the world like anthrax, in the same unusual form - so-called inhalation anthrax - that terrified the nation in 2001.
NYT > Home Page
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These will detail the effects of smallpox, anthrax, mustard gas and other chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
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Repeated like a mantra by Administration officials was the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed "26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulin, one and a half tons of nerve agent VX, and 6,500 aerial chemical bombs.
Joseph A. Palermo: An Unsanitized Look at the Origins of the Iraq War
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They're exposed every day to potentially lethal doses of anthrax.
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Rather: It has been more than a year and half now since the string of deadly anthrax attacks in this country, and still no arrests, even though investigators believe they know who the culprit is and where he is.
The Wrong Man
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Patients exposed to anthrax and botulism should be cared for using standard precautions.
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The soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, from which endotoxin (Bt) genes are extracted and widely incorporated into GM crops as biopesticide, is a close relative of the anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, and exchanges genes with it.
Opportunities and risks of genetically modified crops in Africa
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The building has been quarantined since the mail anthrax attack in October 2001.
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In 2007, the FBI determined that the anthrax originated from a batch created and maintained by Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher at the U.S. Army's biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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They had started research on botulin and anthrax in 1942-the USA had signed the protocol but not ratified it - and by 1944 had reached an advanced stage.
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22. Medicine and Health
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A man is in intensive care after he inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal hides that were to be made into drums.
Times, Sunday Times
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anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identical
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The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
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Aum experimented with botulin toxin, anthrax, cholera, Q fever and the Ebola virus.
Wired Top Stories
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Farm animals are guarded against anthrax, tetanus, and other disease by antibiotics or vaccines developed by animal based research.
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He joined the Royal Air Force as a medical officer and served in India, Burma, and Ceylon, where he encountered smallpox, plague, poliomyelitis, typhus, anthrax, malaria, and dysentery.
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Besides anthrax research, he focused on several other projects, including wound infections and micrococci in septicemic animals (later identified as streptococci and staphylococci).
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Anthrax has been developed by some countries as a possible biological weapon, but Brogan said there was no indication the illness was related to bioterrorism.
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ROEMER: Well, given the latest information that we read in the papers today, that somebody could have cultured, milled, and weaponized it, it was fairly new anthrax, meaning in the last couple of years, I think the FBI needs to continue to go after both a domestic source, which they've kind of honed in on, but also it could be foreign.
CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2002
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Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, smallpox, rubella, measles and anthrax.
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The person or people behind the anthrax attacks were here at home, and may still be here, undetected and certainly uncaught.
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The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
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Already, they've proven successful in hundreds of animal trials against bioweapons like anthrax and the plague, as well as against pandemics like malaria and TB, which claim millions of lives each year.
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Dr Edmiston explained how anthrax, smallpox variola virus, botulism, and pneumonic plague fit the criteria.
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Though this envelope was never unsealed, three Post employees acquired skin anthrax from handling the letter, which seemed to spread skin anthrax to anyone who touched it.
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Experts said that anthrax was a biological weapon capable of mass destruction.
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Anthrax - a potentially fatal human disease - is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
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I will assume that the 60-day supply, it is felt that these people might have more of a risk of having been infected and infected possibly with the small airborne particles, containing bacillus anthraces, so that they might develop -- they might be in the process of potentially developing inhalational anthrax.
CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001
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It is believed that viruses causing deadly diseases such as ebola and salmonella were procured in Russia and that anthrax was obtained from North Korea.
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Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that smallpox has the potential to be.
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He states that anthrax vaccine is not being produced, but the Pentagon has embarked on a massive effort to produce this vaccine and to inoculate all US troops on active duty.
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First of all, smallpox, anthrax, and the like are hard to spread effectively.
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Both anthrax and smallpox vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them.
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About 4,000 plus deal with so-called cutaneous anthrax.
CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2001
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Gastrointestinal anthrax is characterized by severe abdominal pain followed by fever and signs of septicemia.
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For a country already stricken by fear of anthrax attacks, this dire warning could not do much more to concentrate their minds.
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In July a team of scientists announced they had become the first laboratory in the world to manufacture a licensed vaccine against the bacteriological weapon Anthrax.
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Collect cells from someone vaccinated against anthrax, take the gene that encodes the resistance and put it into Agrobacterium tumefaciens, infect the plants and… poof!
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Other facilities at other locations were also established to produce infectious agents for war, not only the pathogens of noncontagious diseases such as anthrax and tularemia but also highly contagious ones, plague and smallpox.
Inaccrochable
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Scientists now report that in mice, a dual-purpose experimental vaccine appears to spur the immune system to disable anthrax's lethal toxin at the same time it kills the bacterium.
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An early suspicion that anthrax might have been the cause of the infection has been discounted.
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The reports of anthrax cases have put a renewed focus on the risks and hazards posed by biological agents.
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It has become clear that only a small number of people, those with both the necessary scientific knowledge and access to government stocks of anthrax developed for bacteriological weapons, could have carried out the attack.
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If these views have any foundation, we are led to think that in order to prove the action of the air upon the anthrax bacteria it will be indispensable to submit to this action the mycelian development of the minute organism under conditions where there cannot be the least admixture of corpuscular germs.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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Tommy Thompson, the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge have one thing in common -- they both love to talk about how much better prepared America is for a bioattack like the still-unsolved anthrax letters of two years ago.
Bioterror: Stepping On Toes?
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He has huge quantities of a nasty and virulent form of the anthrax virus, and is currently engaged in further developing the more easily dispersible and effective dry micro-powder forms.
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When however the same inoculation is carried out on a rabbit or a guinea-pig that has been previously vaccinated against anthrax, a very different picture results.
Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture
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A few days after the anthrax letters were postmarked, Ivins, according to the FBI, had sent an e-mail to a former colleague, who has never been publicly identified, warning: “Bin Laden terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas,” and have “just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans.”
The Wrong Man
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While experts think a smallpox or sarin gas attack is less likely than another conventional assault, the anthrax cases in West Palm Beach have made people very nervous.
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But today the daily panic and the long line of citizens testing for anthrax mocks this misplaced confidence.
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One question is why the government let Dr. Ivins remain at the Army's Fort Detrick research facility in Frederick, Md., and maintain access as late as November 2007 to a biocontainment lab where anthrax was stored.
Lawmakers Seek Anthrax Answers
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I explained that there had been no cases of human anthrax in south Texas and nothing we had sent to Houston had tested positive for anthrax.
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Anthrax due to insect bite introduction (mechanical transmission) is characterized by localized hot, painful, edematous, and subcutaneous swellings at the bite location that spread to the throat, lower neck, floor of the thorax, abdomen, prepuce, and mammary glands.
Anthrax
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He was the first to use vaccines for rabies, anthrax and chicken cholera.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officials tell us that the amount of anthrax found in the mail was what they call negligible, that it actualy required two tests to even find it, so they don't think it's a large amount.
CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2001
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On at least eleven occasions before and during World War II the Imperial Japanese Army employed germ agents as diverse as cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague, anthrax, and paratyphoid, disseminated in both water and air.
One-Alarm Fire
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PANIC spread across America yesterday as anthrax was diagnosed in a woman working at a television network in New York, raising fears of a sustained threat from biological terrorism.
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As Doctor Larry Bush just related, they believe this was contracted in the general area of Lantana, Florida, but nevertheless, federal officials sparing no expense and no time to try to find everything they can about where this man, where he traveled, and what he might have ingested or what he might have breathed that could have given him this -- what is described as inhalation anthrax -- Bill.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2001
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Category A agents are those that cause diseases considered to pose the greatest risk to national security: anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism, tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fevers.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pentagon conducting research into adverse effects of anthrax vaccine while maintaining it is safe
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The government was known to have produced 5m anthrax-filled cakes to infect cattle in Germany during the war, but the latest documents show research was carried out into a far larger variety of diseases, mostly in Porton Down, near Salisbury, and Pirbright in Surrey.
Files reveal Britain's secret biological weapons trials in second world war
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The horrors start to unreel regularly the anthrax mailings, the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl.
Troubled Times, Tender Mercies
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This disease is classified as a biohazard, level III, the same as Anthrax -- just below level IV, which is Ebola.
Undefined
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Pasteur went on to discover vaccinations for chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, anthrax and rabies.
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Here, Sheldon Harris reported, they would have to eat food laced with one of 31 germs — anthrax-filled chocolate, plague-treated cookies, typhus-infected beer — or be injected directly with deadly pathogens to determine the minimal dose required to sicken or kill them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia
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Anthrax is a zoonosis caused by Bacillus anthracis, to which man is relatively resistant, but one deep breath of weaponised aerosol may contain as many as 10 spores.
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According to medical specialists, direct person-to-person spread of anthrax is extremely unlikely to occur.
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If I understand the literature about Anthrax, it has to be in a powdered form in order to be distributed over a wide area or via aerosol.
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The company's DHS Safety Act certified 5 agent biodetection kits, and single agent strips can notify a first responder of the presence of anthrax and other deadly pathogens in as little as three minutes.
Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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Danger 2: The years-long mania for sharply increasing countermeasure development in high bio-security labs is putting us at higher and higher risk of the theft of weapons-grade anthrax that could make the commission report a self-fulfilling prophecy -- but even then not plausibly anywhere near such a death toll.
Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster
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It is generally known that anthrax bacteria can live for decades in the soil or other hospitable environments.
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Extending the rule to labs that handle anthrax, West Nile virus and tuberculosis, known as biosafety level 3, could affect hundreds of scientists.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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A man is in intensive care after he inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal hides that were to be made into drums.
Times, Sunday Times
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House-to-house searches may be necessary to find and eliminate potential anthrax-mailers and other subversives with American citizenship.
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RICHARDSON: “We’re [sic] what the American people want: contain Saddam Hussein from going after his neighbors, but also, go after these deadly weapons of anthrax, VX, botulisms, some that are very, very big threats to future generations of children, not just in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, but around the world, if they get in the hands of terrorists that Saddam is supporting.”
Think Progress » Condi Throws Stones From Her Glass House
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The Germans used anthrax and glanders against the horses and mules of the US Army and its Allies in World War I.
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The cutaneous form of anthrax presents with a darkened eschar or papule that is not painful, but can be somewhat itchy and is generally striking in appearance.
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Two postal workers here had just died, apparently from inhaling anthrax spores, and my US friends told me that the fear was palpable throughout the city.
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Scientists in the United States have created a polyvalent inhibitor of the toxin that protects rats for at least one week after they receive huge doses of anthrax toxin.
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But, you know, investigators have, from the very beginning, always thought that a scientist had to be involved in the anthrax attacks because of what they call the expertise that someone would have needed to make the anthrax.
CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008
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The device, about the size of a home smoke detector, may be used to detect biohazards, such as anthrax.
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The assumption is that if ricin were weaponized, it would be treated like anthrax spores and dispersed for maximum effect.
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The lethality, hardiness, and ease of production of the anthrax bacteria have made it a mainstay of known BW programs.
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But Kelly, not content to accept the Black Death as offspring of the deadly bubonic, also looks at new evidence that the medieval plague ‘may, in fact, have been an outbreak of anthrax or an Ebola-like filovirus.’
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His staff also devoted attention to anthrax because of its speed in poisoning its host.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases
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weapons-grade anthrax
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Pasteur went on to discover vaccinations for chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, anthrax and rabies.
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Four of the 11 patients who developed anthrax in 2001 initially were misdiagnosed with viral syndrome, bronchitis, or gastroenteritis.
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Notice how once BushCo got their war in Iraq andno longerneeded the boogeymen of Osama and the Anthrax attacker, theyseemed toquit even trying to pretend to find them?
Anthrax, Osama, Valerie & Libby
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If the system works as scientists hope it will, plants will be genetically induced to fluoresce, or glow, green, when they detect minute quantities of anthrax or some lethal chemical agent in the air.
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I am glad that I added Jack's blog to my list of unobjectionable content (check out his recent post on anthrax).
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The reporter was talking to the anchorperson and said the Ames strain of this anthrax is resistant to vaccine, the anthrax vaccine.
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Every popup ad pushing American flags or e-mail spam offering an anthrax antidote is another piece of the picture.
Boing Boing: October 14, 2001 - October 20, 2001 Archives
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AN A&E department was locked down yesterday in an anthrax scare - after workers at an art suppliers came in covered in white dust.
The Sun
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Give the cause and treatment of emphysematous anthrax.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Are the anti-anthrax inoculants in production relevant to the threat, or just one minor aspect?
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In France the government has been forced to admit that ‘anthrax’ found in a locker at a Paris station is actually wheatgerm.
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Two weeks after the first anthrax report, postal authorities reported receiving reports of 4,600 incidents around the nation, most involving items such as talcum powder and jelly donuts.
Does 2001's shadow of fear still linger?
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Unlike anthrax, there is no FDA-approved vaccine available to protect against tularemia, and the only antibiotic treatments currently available for improving survival in the event of a tularemia outbreak are older agents, such as gentamicin and doxycycline.
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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Maybe Richard Cohen's only problem is that he gently cries himself to sleep at night, his uncalloused, lily-white hands self-consciously stroking his beard, waiting for an anthrax letter that never comes.
Dan Sweeney: Richard Cohen: Squealing Porcine Quisling, or just Gone Native?
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There's never been an acknowledgement that any facility there had weaponized anthrax.
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If the anthrax bacteria, known as bacillus anthraxious (ph), actually gets into the lungs, an inhaled anthrax infection might occur.
CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001
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In lab experiments, SPAMS was tested against four types of materials terrorists might use - spores of a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis (anthrax); diethyl phthalate (a nerve agent surrogate), natural cobalt powder (a surrogate for Cobalt 60 and other radioactive metals) and RDX (a high explosive).
SPAMS - a Universal Detection System for Threats
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SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Susan, skin anthrax, also known as cutaneous anthrax, is usually caused by the anthrax bacteria coming in contact with broken skin.
CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2001
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He argues that there is clear evidence for the pestilence having been plague, rather than other diseases that have been suggested such as anthrax.
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It is well established that far less expensive antibiotics, including the penicillins and tetracyclines, are highly effective against Anthrax.
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A letter directed to Senator Tom Daschle is thought to be the source of the anthrax, but authorities have not ruled out the possibility that other tainted letters are involved.
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Not all of those considered at risk were alerted to the anthrax connection at the same time, some finding out through media reports up to four days later.
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Proper cooking of meat will destroy anthrax spores.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man, who is unidentified as yet, does not have anthrax - the bacillus is on his person, but he's not infected, and with proper treatment, he should be fine.
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We have to remain ever vigilant and issue extra advice to their offices on the possible risk of an anthrax attack.
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Proper cooking of meat will destroy anthrax spores.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, with the new risks of bioterrorism, emergency physicians need to lead in the early diagnosis of illnesses such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularaemia, and botulism.
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If we spent money on hypocrisy detectors as well as anthrax detectors, they would be buzzing.
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I mean as I said before, we have -- we have 18 cases in all of the 20th Century from pulmonary anthrax and maybe an average of four or five a year for cutaneous, which is, as I say 99 percent curable if you get antibiotics.
CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2001
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In 2002, 154,000 pounds of Chinese honey contaminated with chloramphenicol, banned in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States because it treats anthrax but is known to cause bone marrow failure through aplastic anemia -- turned up in our grocery stores, unknowingly.
Dr. Reese Halter: Tons of Unrecognizable Honey
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B. anthracis bacteria, (2) need for long-term dosing to achieve full protection, complicated by side effects and non-compliance, (3) lack of efficacy when administered late in the anthrax disease cycle, and (4) lack of effectiveness against multi-drug resistant or genetically engineered strains of anthrax.
Undefined
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The suspect was about to be charged for carrying out the anthrax attacks before he took an overdose of painkillers last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is in the deeper recesses of the lung where the Anthrax spores develop into full-blown Pulmonary Anthrax.
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Because this test involves rapidly multiplying -- or what we say, "amplifying" anthrax DNA in our laboratory, the validation that we've been able to do to detect anthrax in samples that contain on a few bacteria is quite outstanding.
CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001
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In 1995 the science historian Gerald L. Geison ran a story in the New York Times illustrating that Pasteur gave a misleading account on his preparation of the anthrax vaccine (shall he be dishonored).
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The new test can identify the presence of anthrax in less than one hour instead of days.
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Once the spores gain entry to the airways and lungs, the bacteria multiply rapidly, producing anthrax toxin in lethal quantities.
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Therefore, the anthrax vaccine is made in a manner similar to the "acellular" pertussis vaccine.
Anthrax Vaccine
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Robert Koch, a German physician, and Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, both experimented with anthrax, an infectious disease of man and animals.
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Anthrax spores have been known to persist dormant in the soil for up to 80 years.
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He and his colleagues began working with a phage that infects the anthrax bacterium almost exclusively and identified the gene encoding its lysin.
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In 1995 the science historian Gerald L. Geison ran a story in the New York Times illustrating that Pasteur gave a misleading account on his preparation of the anthrax vaccine (shall he be dishonored).
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There's the inhaled, the ingested and then, as we've seen in this latest case, the kind that you get through your skin or the so-called cutaneous anthrax.
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2001
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Anthrax is a naturally occurring bacterium that exists in the form of spores which allow it to survive in the environment.
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Americans took precautions on Tuesday to counter the threat of germ warfare, their fears stoked by the death of one man in Florida from anthrax and a positive test for the disease returned by another man.
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It was this analogy that drove him on to study cholera, anthrax, erysipelas and finally rabies, culminating in the development of the rabies vaccine.
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The report makes no judgment about Ivins's guilt or innocence, and officials stood behind their contention that he was the anthrax killer, citing what they called overwhelming evidence.
Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins
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It is heat-sensitive and dies as it dries, so is a much less attractive weapon than anthrax spores, which are many thousands of times more resistant.
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_The specific cause_ of "black leg" is a rod-shaped, spore-producing germ, the bacillus of emphysematous anthrax (Fig. 119).
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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There were some strains of weaponized anthrax, he told her, that were now close to perfect.
CHAMELEON
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Army scientists, who are not accustomed to making public health proclamations, wrongly reassured authorities without sufficiently testing the spread potential of this dangerous anthrax.
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Anthrax exposure is highly treatable when detected early.
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Of the biological weapons, anthrax and smallpox are the most feared.
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Allochems (peloids, oolites) with oncolites & intercolumnal detritus, anthraxolite (dark), chert & chalcedony (matrix), hematite (red), ankerite (white/light colored rhombohedra), algal laminae are all visible in image.
Stromatolites - The Panda's Thumb
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Penicillin, tetracycline and doxycycline are all equally as good against anthrax as is Cipro.
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When the anthrax bacillus is injected under the skin of sensitive animals, such as the rabbit or the guinea-pig, the microbe is found free in abundant fluid from which the white corpuscles are almost wholly absent.
Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture
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One type contained the anthrax vaccine and the other contained phials of a drug called dimercaprol, which acts as an antidote to heavy metal poisoning.
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Infectious disease experts say that the agents of greatest concern are the germs that cause anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulism and tularemia.
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We see renewed, in another form, the feats of prowess of the Anthrax, whose pupa, armed with trepans, bores through rock on the feeble Fly's behalf.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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Anthracinum, which is prepared by triturating the dried puss from anthrax, is a very effective prophylactic against anthrax.
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Worse, there's no reason to think that he's the only person in the world who has ‘no moral qualms about developing weaponized anthrax and smallpox.’
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An extensive network of German agents in the United States injected horses, mules, and cattle with glanders and anthrax at the stockyards just before the animals' departure to the European theater.
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They can not be used for biological weapons like anthrax, which are destroyed by the missile's impact.
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And it turned out to be this bacillus in particular is the nonmortal, so this was another flag for us that this might be anthrax.
CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2001
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He was given a cocktail of vaccines within 10 minutes including anti-plague and anthrax serums.
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The new test can identify the presence of anthrax in less than one hour instead of days.
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If you go fertilizing with unsterilized bonemeal, for instance, hold your breath; the stuff can be crawling with anthrax germs.
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Anthrax, a serious wasting disease, can lie dormant for many years so the risk still exists.
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There is, however, evidence that the group was experimenting with crude chemical weapons, was exploring the use of biological weapons such as botulinum, salmonella, and anthrax, and also made multiple attempts to acquire radioactive materials suitable for a dirty bomb.
The Longest War
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The risk of person-to-person transmission of pulmonary anthrax is minimal.
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For example, we believe it's feasible to create a C60-vancomycin conjugate that attaches to anthrax while it is still in the spore form.
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