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Table 2.1
Agents and diseases of greatest interest in 1949
Antipersonnel
Bacteria
Brucellosis:
Brucella suis:
after 1949, available as an agent
Tularemia:
Francisella tularensis
Melioidosis:
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Q fever:
Coxiella burnetii
Glanders:
Burkholderia mallei
Plague:
Yersina pestis:
“insufficiently stable”
Anthrax:
Bacillus anthracis
Psittacosis:
Chlamydia psittaci
Toxins
Botulism: Toxins of
Clostridium botulinum
Antianimal
Viruses
Foot and mouth disease
Rinderpest
Epizootic viral diarrhea of cattle
Virus III disease of swine (probably African swine fever)
Fowl plague
Newcastle disease
Fowl malaria
Bacteria
Anthrax
Antiplant
Plant inhibitors and plant pathogens
Wheat blight
Rusts
Defoliants
Inhibitors for top application or soil and water application
sistent contamination of terrain...Should it be desired to try to start a
spreading epidemic, Pasturella [
Yersinia
] pestis would be the agent of
choice, but if one preferred to exclude the possibility of spread from man
to man,
Brucella suis
or
Brucella melitensis
might be chosen.
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One of the major problems in waging BW was dissemination.
71
There
was difficulty in wedding agents to munitions. In 1949 the munitions ca-
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