monsters inside me

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Op animal planet kan je wekelijks kijken naar de op en top Amerikaanse reality soap: monsters inside me.
Deze keer ging het over een kind dat gestoken was door een teek. Ze ontwikkelde geen lyme maar tularemie, dat blijkbaar erg besmettelijk is en ook dodelijk. In een goede soap loopt het natuurlijk goed af. Tularemie komt hier ook voor, er is meldingsplicht.

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Hoe komen die teken toch aan al die rare pathogenen?

Agents studied and weaponized[edit]

When the U.S. biological warfare program ended in 1969 it had developed seven mass-produced, battle-ready biological weapons in the form of agents that cause: anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, Q-fever, VEE, and botulism.[10] In addition staphylococcal enterotoxin B was produced as an incapacitating agent.[10] In addition to the agents that were ready to be used, the U.S. program conducted research into the weaponization of more than 20 other agents. They included: smallpox, EEE and WEE, AHF, Hantavirus, BHF, Lassa fever, glanders,[28] melioidosis,[28] plague, yellow fever, psittacosis, typhus, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever (RVF), CHIKV, late blight of potato, rinderpest, Newcastle disease, bird flu, and the toxin ricin.[29]

Besides the numerous pathogens that afflict human beings, the U.S. had developed an arsenal of anti-agriculture biological agents. These included rye stem rust spores (stored at Edgewood Arsenal, 1951–1957), wheat stem rust spores (stored at the same facility 1962–1969),[11] and the causative agent of rice blast (stored at Fort Detrick 1965–1966).[11]

A U.S. facility at Fort Terry focused primarily on anti-animal biological agents. The first agent that was a candidate for development was foot and mouth disease (FMD).[14] Besides FMD, five other top-secret biological weapons projects were commissioned on Plum Island.[30] The other four programs researched included RVF, rinderpest, African swine fever, plus eleven miscellaneous exotic animal diseases.[14][30] The eleven miscellaneous pathogens were: Blue tongue virus, bovine influenza, bovine virus diarrhea (BVD), fowl plague, goat pneumonitis, mycobacteria, "N" virus, Newcastle disease, sheep pox, Teschers disease, and vesicular stomatitis.[14]

Een hoog 'zweefgehalte' Wikipedia, net als die film, maar wellicht toch interessant om te lezen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... ns_program