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  • Thumbnail for Anthrax
    Control and Prevention, the first clinical descriptions of cutaneous anthrax were given by Maret in 1752 and Fournier in 1769. Before that, anthrax had been...
    97 KB (10,248 words) - 02:08, 29 August 2024
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    The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over...
    147 KB (15,293 words) - 02:45, 7 September 2024
  • Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. One of the most prolific hoaxers was Clayton Waagner, an anti-abortion activist who mailed hundreds of anthrax hoax letters...
    11 KB (985 words) - 02:57, 14 August 2024
  • Anthrax weaponization is the development and deployment of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or, more commonly, its spore (referred to as anthrax), as a...
    22 KB (2,494 words) - 00:28, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...
    92 KB (9,099 words) - 15:43, 29 July 2024
  • The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP), is the name of the policy set forth by the U.S. federal government to immunize its military and certain...
    23 KB (2,873 words) - 17:49, 29 August 2024
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    2001 anthrax attacks with the stated goal of tightening U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism. In general, the act included...
    168 KB (20,110 words) - 06:18, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
    to research the Ames strain of anthrax, determined through genetic analysis to be the bacterium used in the 2001 anthrax attacks. USAMRIID's 1983 mission...
    21 KB (2,363 words) - 13:07, 21 January 2024
  • Malaysian authorities in December 2001. His speciality had been to develop anthrax as a weapon of bio-terrorism on behalf of the terror group al-Qaeda. Released...
    8 KB (891 words) - 20:42, 29 August 2024
  • The Demon in the Freezer (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    is a 2002 nonfiction book on the biological weapon agents smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive measures against them...
    10 KB (1,292 words) - 14:41, 30 April 2024
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    Workshop Act 1901 to end the practice, in stark contrast to the alliance of medical and labour activists that promoted the Anthrax Prevention Act 1919 or...
    15 KB (1,938 words) - 17:42, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bioterrorism
    center is a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fights threats like anthrax and the Ebola virus, and additionally towards research...
    80 KB (8,728 words) - 21:07, 27 April 2024
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    11 attacks and subsequent mailings of anthrax spores. The HSA was cosponsored by 118 members of Congress. The act passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 90–9...
    21 KB (2,039 words) - 04:54, 19 August 2024
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    102 doses of Raxibacumab. 10,000 doses of anthrax immune globulin from Cangene, which also treats anthrax. By 2010, the supply was down to 7,327 doses...
    26 KB (3,127 words) - 20:37, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Pasteur
    millions of lives through the developments of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been...
    130 KB (14,120 words) - 10:20, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biological agent
    required by public health officials to respond. Category A agents include anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. The following...
    18 KB (1,404 words) - 01:27, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1919
    Practices) Act 1890 () Wages (Temporary Regulation) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 61) Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873 () Solicitors (Articled Clerks) Act 1918 (8...
    48 KB (600 words) - 12:54, 20 June 2024
  • Casus belli (redirect from Act of War)
    belli (from Latin casus belli 'occasion for war'; pl. casus belli) is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A casus belli...
    29 KB (3,198 words) - 21:59, 17 August 2024
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    Bacillus anthracis (category Anthrax)
    Bacillus anthracis is a gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease to livestock and, occasionally, to humans. It is the...
    40 KB (4,677 words) - 14:11, 20 June 2024
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    4 (BSL-4). In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specified these levels in a publication referred to as BMBL...
    76 KB (5,611 words) - 21:19, 2 September 2024
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