tularemia
IPA: tˈuɫɝˈimiʌ
noun
- (pathology) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
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Examples of "tularemia" in Sentences
- Plague, tularemia, which is also known as rabbit fever, and anthrax, they exist naturally.
- In 1968, 42 trappers and fur dealers from 11 to 82 years of age contacted tularemia (rabbit fever) from muskrats trapped in Addison County, Vermont?
- In the 1960s, Mr. Patrick led the highly classified weaponization of tularemia, a disease he considered superior to anthrax as a biological agent because of its potency.
- A second reason is that rabbits and hares may be infected with a bacillus Bacterium tularense that is similar to the plague bacillus and causes the disease tularemia in humans.
- Antibiotics: Recently HHS said it had awarded a small biotech firm $27 million to develop an antibiotic that could be used against bioterror threats, plague and tularemia, and also against antibiotic-resistant infections.
- Under Mr. Patrick's direction, scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if disseminated by airplane, could cause casualties and sickness over thousands of square miles, according to tests carried out by the U.S. government.
- Despite his grim subject matter, Mr. Patrick was a happy bioweaponeer and liked to shock people he was consulting for by releasing a puff of weapons-grade dust in their presence — minus the anthrax or tularemia bacilli it was designed to carry.
- Molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato from Ontario, Canada, suggests that this may be a reference to a disease called tularemia which infects sheep, donkeys, rabbits, and human beings, and that it is the first instance of biological warfare in recorded history.
- William C. Patrick III, 84, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military's top-secret weaponization of some of the world's deadliest diseases, including anthrax and tularemia, died of bladder cancer Oct. 1 at Citizens Nursing Home in Frederick.
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