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Anthrax   /ˈænθræks/   Listen
Anthrax

noun
(pl. anthraces)
1.
A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people.  Synonym: splenic fever.
2.
A disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia.



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"Anthrax" Quotes from Famous Books



... occurred—that the pestilential germs, which have destroyed the body in question, are thus so treasured and protected as to propagate and multiply, ready to reappear and work like ruin hereafter for others.... Beside anthrax or splenic fever, spores from which are notoriously brought to the surface from buried animals below, and become fatal to the herds feeding there, it is now almost certain that malarial diseases, notably Roman ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various


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