Anthrax as a Potential Biological Warfare Agent
Open Access
- 9 March 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 158 (5) , 429-434
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.5.429
Abstract
Anthrax is a zoonotic illness recognized since antiquity. Today, human anthrax has been all but eradicated from the industrialized world, with the vast majority of practitioners in the United States unlikely to have seen a case. Unfortunately, the disease remains endemic in many areas of the world, and anthrax poses a threat as a mass casualty–producing weapon if used in a biological warfare capacity.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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