Anthrax

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Categories: Infectious diseases | Biological weapons

Anthrax is an infection caused by bacteria spores common on many farm animals and other herbivores. Anthrax spores are sometimes used as biological weapons, as happened in October, 2001, when many U.S. officials were mailed highly-refined anthrax spores in a terrorist attack.

John in DC recently revived this topic in a post on AMERICAblog.com titled "After September 11, we did get hit.

References:

• Wikipedia article on "Anthrax"
• Wikipedia article on "2001 anthrax attacks"

Articles about anthrax on Daily Kos:

• Articles tagged "anthrax" on Daily Kos