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| ==Introduction to Bioterrorism==
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| [[Image:PHIL_22882_lores.jpg|thumb|300px|right|This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D), computer-generated image, of a group of Gram-positive, Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus) bacteria. The photo credit for this image belongs to Alissa Eckert, who is a medical illustrator at the [http://www.cdc.gov/ CDC].]]
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| <br><b>By Emily Rogers</b>
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| <br>Bioterrorism is defined as using “using biological agents to inflict disease and/ or death on humans, animals or plants, and motivations for pursuing such an attack could have religious, political, or criminal motivations.”<ref name=s1>[https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/CMR.14.2.364-381.2001 Klietmann, W., & Ruoff, K. (2001). Bioterrorism: Implications for the Clinical Microbiologist. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 14(2).]</ref> People that plan and perform bioterrorism attacks could also be a part of nationalist, separatist, or apocalyptic cult groups.<ref name=s2>[http://clsjournal.ascls.org/content/ascls/15/1/6.full.pdf Poupard J. A. and Miller L. A. History of biological warfare: catapults to capsomeres. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 666 1992 9 -20]</ref> Biological agents can also be used by military and government agencies in warfare.<ref name=s2></ref> Early records of bioterrorism in the 14th century include the Tartar group attacking the city Kaffa by catapulting cadavers infected with the plague, caused by the bacteria <i>Yersinia pestis</i>, over the walls of the city, causing the plague to spread over the Mediterranean.<ref name=s2></ref> More recently in 1984, a cult following the Rajneeshee movement poisoned a restaurant in Oregon with Salmonella bacteria because they had political motives to win an election.<ref name=s2></ref> Unlike other types of terror attacks, bioterrorism has the unique ability to go undetected for a severe length of time, in which infected individuals can spread the agent even further, before the attack event is even detected.<ref name=s2></ref><br><br>The insertion code consists of:
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| <br><b>Legend/credit:</b> Electron micrograph of the Ebola Zaire virus. This was the first photo ever taken of the virus, on 10/13/1976. By Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, then at the [http://www.cdc.gov/ CDC]. Every image requires a link to the source.
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| Sample citations: <ref name=aa>[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000005&representation=PDF Hodgkin, J. and Partridge, F.A. "<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> meets microsporidia: the nematode killers from Paris." 2008. PLoS Biology 6:2634-2637.]</ref>
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| <ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847443/ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.]</ref>
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| <br><br>A citation code consists of a hyperlinked reference within "ref" begin and end codes.
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| <br>To repeat the citation for other statements, the reference needs to have a names: "<ref name=aa>"
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| <ref name=s3>[https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp#catdef Bioterrorism agents/ diseases. (2018, April 4). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved April 14, 2023, from https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp#catdef]</ref>
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| <br><br>Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by [https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm Joan Slonczewski], 2023, [http://www.kenyon.edu/index.xml Kenyon College]
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