Sentence examples for a strain of anthrax from inspiring English sources

The vaccine is made from a piece of a strain of anthrax that does not cause the illness.

Russian scientists reported in 1997 that they had made a strain of anthrax resistant to their own nation's vaccine.

Last year, melting permafrost in Siberia released a strain of anthrax, which had been sealed in a frozen reindeer carcass, sickening 100 people and killing one child.

Indeed, according to a book* that is about to be published the Russians have recently developed a strain of anthrax that is resistant to antibiotics.If anthrax spores are inhaled (the aim, for the purposes of war), they cause a swift and grisly death.

One is for use against any strain of anthrax that might have been made resistant to antibiotics.

Mr. Batcheller sits around the corner from where an aide opened a letter on Monday that was contaminated with a potent strain of anthrax.

For instance, a team of Russian scientists that once made a deadly strain of anthrax last week gave their American counterparts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta two rare anthrax strains as part of a long-awaited exchange program.

Two weeks after these initial inoculations, both the vaccinated and control sheep were inoculated with a virulent strain of anthrax.

But until March, he had been allowed to use less secure areas, where, Army officials said Wednesday, he spilled a nonlethal strain of anthrax.

In 1979 a weaponised strain of anthrax being developed by Soviet researchers in the city of Sverdlosk was accidentally released, killing about 70 people and some livestock.

Yet, the post-9/11 "Amerithrax" attacks, where five anonymous letters containing a deadly strain of anthrax were sent to media outlets and the US Senate, which is one of the few examples available of an actual bioterrorist attack, have been attributed to Bruce Ivins, a professional biologist working for the Department of Defense.