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1. Bacillus anthracis Bacillus anthracis Infectious disease A gram-positive organism which causes often fatal infections when its endospores–resistant to heat, drying, UV light, gamma radiation, and many disinfectants–enter the body and cause septicemia Military medicine  is the scientific name of the bacteria discovered by Dr. Rober Koch hi 1876.

2. People near the facility may have breathed in enough fine spores to become infected with fatal inhalation anthrax inhalation anthrax Pulmonary anthrax, woolsorter's disease Pulmonology Occupational anthrax caused by inhalation of Brucella anthracis spores, affecting those exposed to aerosols during early processing of goat or other infected animal hair Clinical .

3. Inhalation anthrax symptoms include fever, aches, coughs, chest pain, difficulty breathing. The telltale symptom of cutaneous anthrax is a large sore with a black, scabby scab·by
adj.
1. Having, consisting of, or covered with scabs.

2. Affected with scab or scabies.
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4. Since rugged anthrax spores can survive in a dormant state in soil for several decades, it could be dangerous for people to go to the island before the spores die.

5. Taking antibiotics when you're not sick can lead to drug resistance, in which bacteria mutate mu·tate  
intr. & tr.v. mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing, mu·tates
To undergo or cause to undergo mutation.



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