In the First World War, German agents were arrested attempting to inoculate draft animals with anthrax, and they were believed to be responsible for outbreaks of glanders in horses and mules.
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U . S . interest in glanders ( agent LA ) continued through the 1950s, except it had an inexplicable tendency to lose virulence in the lab, making it difficult to weaponize.
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During the prolonged campaign that turned into the Soviet Union's Vietnam, its military sprayed Afghan rebels with glanders, a bacteria that strikes horses and that can be highly lethal in humans.
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On August 19, 1879 Parker invested in the nearby Pacific Sugar Mill in cattle and sheep had to be destroyed later when a glanders epidemic broke out because of poor conditions in the stables.
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At this sprawling, rundown research complex where Soviet scientists once secretly worked to turn plague, tularemia, glanders and anthrax into weapons, the Clinton administration is taking what many consider a perilous gamble.
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The disease, glanders, is of interest to specialists in germ warfare because some countries are suspected of trying to make a weapon of it, as Germany tried to do during World War I.
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Pathogens studied included the biological agents causing a myriad of diseases such as anthrax, glanders, brucellosis, melioidosis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Q fever, coccidioidomycosis, and other plant and animal pathogens.
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For the sixth plague, which caused boils to break out on humans and animals, Marr hit upon glanders, a highly contagious airborne bacterial disease that can also be spread by direct contact by flies.
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Sources said the Iraqi horses are suspected to be carrying the virus of two of the five unwelcome diseases : glanders, which infects the nasal glands, and infectious equine arteritis, or inflammation of arteries.
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The unidentified, 33-year-old civilian microbiologist is expected to recover from glanders, which he contracted while working on a vaccine to shield troops from the disease, Fort Detrick spokesman Charles Dasey said.
