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  2. Anthrax - Wikipedia

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    Cutaneous anthrax, also known as hide-porter's disease, is when anthrax occurs on the skin. It is the most common (>90% of cases) and least dangerous form (low mortality with treatment, 23.7% mortality without). [20] [5] Cutaneous anthrax presents as a boil-like skin lesion that eventually forms an ulcer with a black center .

  3. Bacillus anthracis - Wikipedia

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    B. anthracis was the first bacterium conclusively demonstrated to cause disease, by Robert Koch in 1876. [34] The species name anthracis is from the Greek anthrax (ἄνθραξ), meaning "coal" and referring to the most common form of the disease, cutaneous anthrax, in which large, black skin lesions are formed. Throughout the 19th century ...

  4. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    A disease caused by infection with an alien entity called "the colour" by characters in the story, the disease affects anything living, including plants, insects, livestock, wild animals, and humans. It causes various symptoms depending on species that ends with the victim crumbling into gray dust.

  5. Surra - Wikipedia

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    Surra (from the Marathi sūra, meaning the sound of heavy breathing through nostrils, of imitative origin) [1] is a disease of vertebrate animals. The disease is caused by protozoan trypanosomes , specifically Trypanosoma evansi , of several species which infect the blood of the vertebrate host, causing fever , weakness, and lethargy which lead ...

  6. Anthrax toxin - Wikipedia

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    Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming, Gram positive, rod-shaped bacterium (Fig. 1).The lethality of the disease is caused by the bacterium's two principal virulence factors: (i) the polyglutamic acid capsule, which is anti-phagocytic, and (ii) the tripartite protein toxin, called anthrax toxin.

  7. Not just a bioweapon: Anthrax outbreak kills dozens of ... - AOL

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    Anthrax is a bacterial disease that is caused by Bacillus anthracis bacteria. It can infect animals when they breathe in or ingest spores in contaminated soil, plants, or water.

  8. Case of horse disease strangles at charity's farm - AOL

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    The movement of horses at an animal welfare charity's farm has been suspended after a mare tested positive for a highly infectious respiratory disease. A recent arrival at World Horse Welfare's ...

  9. The Hot Zone (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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    O'Connor's scab tests negative for anthrax; because O'Connor was taking Cipro to treat the presumed spider bite, Ryker has the CDC try a more advanced test which comes back positive. Ryker locates the letter and learns of anthrax exposures involving similar letters at the New York Post and CBS News, as well as the infant of an ABC News employee ...