Anthrax toxin

logical-thinking person could approve of performing such a devious deed. Nor can I understand how one could despise terrorists such as Saddam Hussein, but be comfortable with biological warfare. According to the SIU School of Medicine, a kilogram of Anthrax, a common name among biological agents used, is described as being strong enough to eliminate up to one-hundred-thousand humans off of the face of the earth (Overview). If that’s not terrorism, I don’t know what is. In fact, another commonly…

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the release of toxic biological agents. Common biological weapons are anthrax, botulism, plague, and smallpox. The plague has been one of the most devastating epidemics to mankind, second only to smallpox. Humans can become infected after being bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents. The plague develops rapidly and carries a high fatality rate despite immediate treatment and antibiotics. It has been used on various occasions because it’s difficult…

Alexander Fleming “discovered the existence penicillin through a combination of perceptiveness and luck” (Krogh, 2011, p. 398). While he was growing bacteria in a petri dish, he notices the appearance of a type of fungus. The contamination caught the attention of Fleming. He realizes that he had found a substance that had the power to kill bacteria. Fleming continued to grow more fungal mold and tested it on different kind of bacteria. Additionally, he tested it on healthy mice in which he…

in digestion and taking up space to prevent disease causing pathogen from taking over. Transient bacterias just pass through, they donot take over an area for too long in the body. Virulent is the ability for a disease causing pathogen to produce toxins. Symbiosis on the other hand is a sharing relation=ship between organisms are different from each other. There are two other terms that come to paly when the word symbiosis is define. Commensalism is when two unlike organism have a relationship…

Pasteur’s discovered the rabies vaccine in 1885. The discovery had a significant impact on diseases that helps in society today with preventing ongoing diseases in children. The rapid growth of vaccines helps prevents against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, tuberculosis the list can go on too many…

Infectious bacteria cause disease by releasing toxins. These toxins are either released during the cell’s lifetime or when the cell dies. Use the diagram given to describe antibiotic resistance. The red cells represent bacteria resistant to antibiotics, and the green cells represent bacteria who cannot survive…

In the early days of research, 23 cases of cutaneous anthrax occurred between 1944 and 1945. Because of this, procedures were improved drastically, along with laboratory guidelines. Biosafety cabinets, or BSC’s, were introduced into laboratories and the instances of exposure went down to only two cases between…

Bacteriology discovered the specific agents that connected animal and humans diseases. This took a while to uncover because contaminated animal food was stealthily brought into consumption. Sick animals were treated with preservatives, which produced toxins that harmed the human system without any obvious change to the taste and texture of the product. Benjamin Richardson, public health campaigner, drew attention to these dangers which gave George Buchanan, Chief Medical Officer, the impetus to…

How did reputation spur the Japanese cult, Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aum, to use violence and how did they utilize said violence to create a new reputation? An act of domestic terror in 1995, and several smaller scale terroristic acts committed in the early 90s, is the kind of violence used by this cult to change and build a new reputation for themselves. After trying to gain political legitimacy, and failing, cult leader Shoko Asahara turned to building up his credibility and reputation by…

The anti-vaccine movement claims this is a source of conflict because of the large salary she now gets at Merck. Gerberding did have an impressive career when she managed the CDC. She handled many public health crises while in office, including the anthrax attacks in 2001, avian influenza and the global outbreak of SARS. She is deemed as an authority on public health and vaccines, so her merits made her the top candidate for a top position at Merck. The anti-vaccination movement would still…