Anthrax: Animal Disease and Bioweapon

Explanation: Anthrax can be prevented and controlled by destroying contaminated fodder by burning. But not completely. Anthrax spore vaccine @ 1 ml subcut every year before onset of monsoon in areas where anthrax outbreaks are common.

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Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus anthracis. It can be transmitted via inhalation of spores, ingestion of contaminated materials, or through skin contact (often involving biting flies).

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Bacillus anthracis, which can change into spores that can last for a long time in the environment before germinating. Various other diseases caused by bacteria are relapsing fever, bovine tuberculosis etc. 

Pasteur discovered that growing anthrax bacilli at about 42 °C made them unable to produce spores.  . His laboratory notebooks, now  show that he actually used heat and potassium dichromate similar to Toussaint's method, followed by inoculation of the tested animals with the weakened innoculum. The experiment, conducted  by him at Pouilly-le-Fort on sheep, goats and cows, was successful.

Anthrax spores created the white powder letter scare in the United States in 2001, not the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The other statements correctly describe bioweapons as low cost, highly lethal, and hard to detect.

Explanation: Symptoms of Anthrax include all of the above apart from Bleeding from natural openings like anus, nostrils, vulva etc. Sudden death in peracute cases. Dyspnoea - difficult breathing & Dysentery or diarrhoea.

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

Anthrax is a zoonotic (the disease that is normally present in animals and can be transmitted to humans through animals) disease caused by the gram-positive aerobic bacterium called Bacillus anthracis.

• Symptoms depend on the route of infection. They can range from a skin ulcer with a dark scab to difficulty breathing.

• Hence anthrax is a bacterial disease. So, the correct answer is 'Anthrax'.

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It usually affects  ruminants like goats, cattle, sheep, horses. However, it is also seen in humans. Symptoms include sore throat, fever, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea, shortness of breath.

Biowar is the use of highly infectious pathogens, their spores and toxins as agents of biological weapons against humans, crops and animals of enemy country. The agent is kept in a social container that keeps it in active/virulent state during delivery by missile or aircraft. Spray and power are two common forms in which the bioweapon agent is delivered. Potential pathogens for bioweapons agent is delivered. Potential pathogens for bioweapons are Bacillus anthracis, Vibro cholera, small pox virus Pasteurella Yersinia pestis, Botulinum toxin, etc.

Anthrax is treated with the antibiotic ciproflaxacin that is very effective in chronic cases.

Anthrax refers to a contagious disease that is caused by a bacterium called the Bacillus anthracis. The disease mainly occurs in domestic and wild animals such as goats, cow, sheep, and camels. The infection is transmitted through spores of the bacteria. Hence, anthrax in sheep is caused by bacteria.

In acute cases, Anthrax causes increased resoiration accompanied by blood mixed foamy discharge from the natural orifices like mouth, nose and anus.

Rinderpest is a cattle plague disease that affects only animals.