Anthrax

hands as well. The anthrax attacks occurred shortly after 9/11 in September, eighteen victims of the attacks were identified between October 3 and November 20. This was caused by dried spores of B. anthracis that were sent through letters by the public mail. Five people are known to have died from anthrax and The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme Macqueen states that “at least 22 people were thought to have become infected, 11 with cutaneous anthrax and 11 with…

The Demon in the Freezer Book Report The Demon in the Freezer written by Richard Preston is a biological book discusses bioweapon attack of anthrax after 9/11 and the threat to the world. The book also provides the history of eradication of smallpox which is the worst human disease. After the biologists save 70,000,000 lives, some scientists use the remained stockpiles to invent bioweapons, which shocks the eradicators. The American government starts to be highly aware and search the biological…

The idea of public health is to promote a safe environment to protect the health of the population. As times progress, science has drastically changed. What scientists back then would believe to be impossible has now been achieved. Technology is one of the main reasons for allowing us to advance in science. As the research and discoveries expand our knowledge and understanding it also provides the ability to inflict and create biological weapons. Genetic engineering progressed causing…

building’s air conditioning system and observed as billions of microbes spread all through the Pentagon. Secret testing proceeded through the next year as Navy warships sprayed cities of Norfolk, Hampton, and Newport News with an allegedly harmless anthrax stimulant. Ships released a three-mile long cloud of Serratia marcescens bacteria while sailing off San Francisco. Researchers assessed that nearly all of San Francisco’s 800,000 residents inhaled them. (11) The intentional release of…

couple examples of this would be the anthrax scare in 2001 and the more recent Zika virus scare. Around 2001, people were becoming scared after Senator Tom Daschle received mail that tested positive for anthrax. People feared the idea of chemical warfare now, so everyone became unhinged. The average citizens didn’t realize the amount of anthrax needed to actually cause harm to some. Things became blown out of proportion according to Fox News, "It takes a lot of anthrax to make anybody sick and…

Fears about the possible use of biological weapons against US civilians had been largely hypothetical but were confirmed by the combination of 9/11 terrorist attacks and especially, the anthrax letters of September 2001. The perception about bioterrorism drastically changed, resulting in new legislation and public health measures being put in place to prevent any future mishaps from occurring. One example is the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act which granted public health officials…

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at the time) but a bacterium, and was infectious (a scientist named Villemin demonstrated its was contagious but had no solid evidence to back him up). To prove that his theory was correct, Koch used a test which he had devised in his study of anthrax (now) called ‘Koch’s postulates.’ He used guinea pigs to evaluate these postulates on, as they required a host (infected with tuberculosis) to pass on the disease to an uninfected specimen. The tuberculosis disease satisfied all his postulates,…

It is ethically obligatory (i.e. must be done on ethical grounds) to test an anthrax vaccine on young children in order to prepare for the possibility of a terrorist attack because it is our duty to protect our children’s health. The first main reason for testing a vaccine on children is for their safety. One needs to be able to protect the children if a bioterrorist attack is to occur. The risks that are faced by not testing the vaccine are that the virus could have a reproductive rate(R0) that…

The history of vaccines goes way back to 1000 CE. A vaccine timeline on historyofvaccines.org shows that there is evidence that the Chinese in early 1000 CE employed a smallpox inoculation and it was also practiced through Africa and Turkey as well (History of Vaccines). The next big vaccine epidemic started with Edward Jenner. He was a very successful man when his use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox quickly made the practice wide-spread in 1796. Edward Jenner took pus from a…