anthrax
Deadly bacterial infection
Anthrax is a serious infectious disease caused by bacteria, affecting livestock and occasionally humans.
It can be contracted through skin contact, ingestion, or inhalation of spores, with the inhaled form being most deadly.
Anthrax gained notoriety as a potential bioweapon, particularly after the 2001 mailings of anthrax-laced letters in the United States: The building was evacuated after a suspicious powder tested positive for anthrax. (Capitalized Anthrax is the heavy metal band.)
Pathogen deployed as armament
- weaponizedMade into a threat
- sporesAsexual reproductive bodies
- powderFine dry particles
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
dispersal · aerosol · decontamination · detection · threat · defense · preparedness · CDC
Cylindrical bacterial cell
- sporeAsexual reproductive cell
- endosporeBacterial dormancy structure
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
- toxinBiological-origin harm agent
microbe · germ · capsule · cultivation · colony · incubation · virulence · vegetative
Pathogen invasion causing illness
- cutaneousRelating to skin
- inhalationTaking breath in
- gastrointestinalRelating to digestive tract
- injectionSyringe-delivered dose
eschar · lesion · fever · septicemia · toxemia · meningitis · symptoms · diagnosis
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- zoonoticDisease from animals
veterinary · herd · carcass · vaccination · outbreak · endemic · pasture · grazing
Bacteria-killing medication
- ciprofloxacinFluoroquinolone antimicrobial agent
- doxycyclineTetracycline-class antimicrobial medication
- penicillinFungus-derived infection fighter
- prophylaxisPreventive medical treatment
vaccine · antitoxin · immunization · quarantine · isolation · hospitalization · survival · prevention
bioweapon
Pathogen deployed as armament
- weaponizedMade into a threat
- sporesAsexual reproductive bodies
- powderFine dry particles
contamination · dispersal · aerosol · decontamination · detection · threat · defense · preparedness · CDC · hazmat
bacillus
Cylindrical bacterial cell
- sporeAsexual reproductive cell
- endosporeBacterial dormancy structure
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
toxin · microbe · germ · capsule · cultivation · colony · incubation · virulence · vegetative · dormant
infection
Pathogen invasion causing illness
- cutaneousRelating to skin
- inhalationTaking breath in
- gastrointestinalRelating to digestive tract
injection · eschar · lesion · fever · septicemia · toxemia · meningitis · symptoms · diagnosis · prognosis
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
zoonotic · veterinary · herd · carcass · vaccination · outbreak · endemic · pasture · grazing · soil
antibiotic
Bacteria-killing medication
- ciprofloxacinFluoroquinolone antimicrobial agent
- doxycyclineTetracycline-class antimicrobial medication
- penicillinFungus-derived infection fighter
prophylaxis · vaccine · antitoxin · immunization · quarantine · isolation · hospitalization · survival · prevention
- infectionsviral infection, bacterial infection, fungal infection, parasitic infection, bacteremia
- epidemicsepidemic, pandemic, outbreak, disease, Black Death
- animal diseasesrabies, distemper, tuberculosis, mange, avian flu
- zoonotic diseaseszoonosis, zoonoses, zoonotic disease, rabies, leptospirosis
- diseasescancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, influenza, measles
- Health Threatsdisease, epidemic, pandemic, virus, outbreak
anthraxvaccine
Disease prevention injection
antidote · cure · antibiotic · penicillin · medicine
- anthrax scareFear of bacterial attack
- anthrax attackDeliberate disease-spreading assault
- anthrax vaccineImmunization against lethal spore-forming bacterium