CDC Bioterrorism Diseases-Agents List/Related Articles

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Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
Bioterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Viral hemorrhagic fever [r]: Illnesses that are caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Togaviridae, and Flaviviridae, characterized by fever and bleeding disorders that can all progress to high fever, shock and death in extreme cases. ^[e]
- Arenaviridae [r]: Add brief definition or description
  - Lassa fever [r]: Add brief definition or description
  - Machupo virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Filoviridae [r]: Add brief definition or description
  - Ebola virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
  - Marburg virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Bacillus anthracis [r]: The bacterium that causes anthrax. It is a Select Agent and a high-risk biological weapon. ^[e]
Coxiella burnetii [r]: The rickettsia that causes Q fever. ^[e]
Francisella tularensis [r]: Pathogenic, aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, that causes the circulatory disease tularemia, which can be contracted via contaminated food or drink, physical contact, spray, or bug bite. ^[e]
Variola major [r]: Add brief definition or description
Yersinia pestis [r]: Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, that can infect humans and other animals in three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the notorious bubonic plagues. ^[e]