In 2001, Disease Detectives helped solve an anthrax terrorist attack which affected many people across the United States. Disease Detectives worked in each of these cases to determine the cause of the outbreak.Īnthrax also has been used as a bioterrorist threat in the United States. In 2009, a New Hampshire woman became sick with gastrointestinal anthrax (a very rare form of the disease that causes flu-like symptoms, sore throat, nausea, and diarrhea) after participating in a drumming event. Your hard work helped to solve this outbreak!Īlthough this scenario was not real, there have been several real-life investigations of anthrax illness involving drums made of contaminated animal hides.ĭisease Detectives worked in 2006 to determine that a drum maker in Pennsylvania caught inhalation anthrax by working with dried goat hides that had traces of anthrax spores.
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