POTENTIAL AGRICULTURAL WMDS (WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION)

September 25, 2006

Bacterial Agents

  • Anthrax
  • Brucellosis
  • Cholera
  • Glanders — B
  • Plague, Pneumonic — A
  • Q Fever — B
  • Tularemia — A

Viral Agents

  • Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever — A & Malburg Hemorrhagic Fever — A
  • Smallpox — A
  • VEE — B

Biological Toxins

  • Botulinum – A&B
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
  • Ricin — B
  • T-2 Mycotoxins

Foodborne Bacterial Agents

  • Cryptosporidium parvum — B
  • Escherichia coli 0157:H7 — B
  • Salmonella species — B
  • Shigella dysenteriae — B
  • Vibrio cholerae — B

Category C Agents

  • Hantaviruses
  • Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
  • Nipah virus
  • Tickborne Hemorrhagic Fever viruses
  • Yellow fever virus

Chemical Agents

  • Blister agents
  • Blood agents
  • Bombs, radioactive irradiation — weapons of war
  • Corrosive industrial acids/bases
  • Dioxins, furans and PCBs
  • Explosive nitro compounds
  • Flammable industrial gases and liquids
  • Heavy metal
  • Incapacitating agents
  • Nerve gas
  • Pesticides
  • Pulmonary agents
  • Volatile toxins

Other Lists

  • APHIS Select Agents List: www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/permits/agr_bioterrorism
  • CDC Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases: www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist.asp

Source: WIFSS

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