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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, the first clinical descriptions of cutaneous anthrax were given by Maret in 1752 and...
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    The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a combination of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over...
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  • Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. One of the most prolific hoaxers was Clayton Waagner, an anti-abortion activist who mailed hundreds of anthrax hoax letters...
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...
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  • Anthrax weaponization is the development and deployment of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or, more commonly, its spore (referred to as anthrax), as a...
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    2001 anthrax attacks with the stated goal of tightening U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism. In general, the act included...
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    11 attacks and subsequent mailings of anthrax spores. The HSA was cosponsored by 118 members of Congress. The act passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 90–9...
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  • The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP), is the name of the policy set forth by the U.S. federal government to immunize its military and certain...
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    to research the Ames strain of anthrax, determined through genetic analysis to be the bacterium used in the 2001 anthrax attacks. USAMRIID's 1983 mission...
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    millions of lives through the developments of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been...
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    102 doses of Raxibacumab. 10,000 doses of anthrax immune globulin from Cangene, which also treats anthrax. By 2010, the supply was down to 7,327 doses...
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  • Malaysian authorities in December 2001. His speciality had been to develop anthrax as a weapon of bio-terrorism on behalf of the terror group al-Qaeda. Released...
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    center is a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fights threats like anthrax and the Ebola virus, and additionally towards research...
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  • The Demon in the Freezer (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    is a 2002 nonfiction book on the biological weapon agents smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive measures against them...
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    required by public health officials to respond. Category A agents include anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, and viral hemorrhagic fevers. The following...
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    Bacillus anthracis (category Anthrax)
    Bacillus anthracis is a gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease to livestock and, occasionally, to humans. It is the...
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    Workshop Act 1901 to end the practice, in stark contrast to the alliance of medical and labour activists that promoted the Anthrax Prevention Act 1919 or...
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    Removal and Diseases Prevention Act was passed to identify whether the transmission of cholera was by air or by water. The act was used to encourage...
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    Practices) Act 1890 () Wages (Temporary Regulation) Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 61) Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873 () Solicitors (Articled Clerks) Act 1918 (8...
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  • Casus belli (redirect from Act of War)
    belli (from Latin casus belli 'occasion for war'; pl. casus belli) is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A casus belli...
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    anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxins had been effectively weaponized. In particular, Gruinard Island in Scotland, was contaminated with anthrax during...
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  • in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks. Using BSATs in biomedical research prompts concerns about dual...
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    4 (BSL-4). In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specified these levels in a publication referred to as BMBL...
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    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (category Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
    up Capitol Hill buildings after the 2001 anthrax attacks. Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program Health Hazard Evaluation Program...
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    Quarantine periods can be very short, such as in the case of a suspected anthrax attack, in which people are allowed to leave as soon as they shed their...
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    Spain, occupational safety and health is regulated by the Spanish Act on Prevention of Labor Risks. The Ministry of Labor is the authority responsible...
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  • million fleas per week and later experimented with other diseases such as anthrax, cholera, dengue, dysentery, malaria, relapsing fever, and tularemia. A...
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    Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, following the 2001 anthrax attacks ensuing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...
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    Organization (JIDO) in accordance with the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In Section 1532 of the NDAA, Congress directed the DoD to move JIDA...
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    4 (BSL-4). In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specified these levels. In the European Union, the same biosafety...
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