Of those infected 66 died within 1 to 4 days following the onset of symptoms. In 1979, an accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet Union bioweapons facility in Sverdlovsk, Russia infected 77 people with diagnostic certainty. In recent history, anthrax has been used as an agent of biologic warfare in both the United States and abroad. Anthrax has many desired features that make it an optimal biologic weapon because it has the following features including high morbidity and mortality rates, low infective dose, lack of rapid available diagnostic tests, lack of universally available effective vaccine, potential to cause anxiety and fear, wide availability of pathogen, feasibility of production, environmental stability, and potential to be weaponized. Anthrax is a spore-forming rod that is readily found in soil in tropical environments.
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