Here is the list of Biological Warfare agents from my other post. Let's see how many have been sighted in the last six months....
By my count that would be 14 seen in the last 6 months
, and 8 unseen
I guess we're under attack boys and girls.
Chickungunya Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Dengue, Malaria, Yellow fever, Influenza
Early Symptoms [(6) Days]: Excruciating joint pain causing incapacitation. Fever. Mild headache. Anorexia and constipation.
Dengue Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Malaria, Yellow Fever, Influenza, Chickungunya
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: Sudden onset of high fever and chilliness. There is severe aching of the head, back, and extremi-ties. Sore throat. Prostration. Anorexia and constipation.
Notes: Also called Breakbone fever.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: Influenza
Early Symptoms [(2) Days]: Nausea, vomiting, headache, and fever.
Advanced Symptoms [3 + (6) Days]: After a short period of well being, the following symptoms manifest: very high fever, gastro-intestinal disturbances, convulsions, general rigidity, swelling of limbs and face, cyanosis, and drowsiness possibly leading to coma.
Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (H.I.V)
Differential Diagnosis: None.
Early Symptoms [5 + (3) Months]: H.I.V. progresses to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.). The immune system is slowly destroyed. Substantial weight loss occurs in later part. Persistent fatigue. Diarrhea. Enlarged lymph glands. Night sweats or fevers. Hairy leukoplakia--a hairy white/grey growth on the toungue.
Influenza
Differential Diagnosis: Flu virus (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 Day]: Abrupt onset of fever, chills, malaise, aches, sore throat.
Advanced Symptoms [2 Days]: All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Notes: Influenza is a very serious and often lethal disease that often appears in epidemics. Making it even more lethal is a 20% chance of the patient developing Viral Pneumonia.
Smallpox / Variola
Differential Diagnosis: Chickenpox or Herpes Zoster (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 + (3) Days]: Chills, fever, headaches, lumbar pain, vomiting.
Notes: Believed to have been eradicated by vaccination by the World Health Organization in 1979. Vaccine exists. Agent is intended to kill.
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: Influenza
Early Symptoms: [2 Days] Abrupt onset of fever, chills, malaise, aches, sore throat.
Advanced Symptoms: [(3) Days] All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Viral Pneumonia
Differential Diagnosis: Other pneumonias (not listed).
Early Symptoms: [5 Days] Cough, fever, sore throat, body pain, fluid-filled lungs.
Notes: Viral Pneumonia can sometimes develop (20% chance) after a bout of influenza. Also, the symptoms are duplicated by pneumonic plague (q.v.).
Western Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: Headache, drowsiness, fever, gastro-intestinal disturbances.
Yellow Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Hepatitis, Jaundice (not listed)
Early Symptoms [3 Days]: Malaise, headache, fever, pain in eyes, nausea, and vomiting. Also severe body pains, prostration,
bleeding into the skin and from mucous membranes.
Rickettsial Agents
Rickettsia are the causes of obscure but still dangerous diseases. The difficulty in diagnosing such diseases makes them attractive to BW researchers because it prevents a targeted enemy from being able to effectively counteract them.
Rickettsia are between viruses and bacteria in size and are structurally similar to bacteria. Rickettsia follow similar life patterns to bacteria. However, Rickettsia do not have an adequate cell membrane and, like viruses, are prone to destruction by drying out.
Psittacosis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [7 days]: Chills, fever, anorexia, sore throat, malaise, headache.
Notes: Also called parrot fever. Vaccine available.
Q-Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Psittacosis. Brucellosis. Pneumonia, Hepatititis, Tuberculosis (not listed).
Early Symptoms [5 Days]: Prostration, muscle pain, abdominal pain, cough, jaundice.
Advanced Symptoms [7 Days]: Continued
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Typhoid, measles (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 + (5) Days]: Anorexia, malaise, nausea, headache, and sore throat. Progresses to include chills, fever, aches in joints, bones, and muscles.
Advanced Symptoms [7 Days]: Vomiting. Rash. Delerium and stupor possibly progressing to coma.
Epidemic Typhus
Differential Diagnosis: Murine (endemic) Typhus (see notes).
Early Symptoms: [7 Days] Fever, malaise, headache, rash.
Advanced Symptoms: [8 Days] Worse rash, delerium, stupor.
Bacterial Agents
Bacterial agents once made up the bulk of BW agents, although much of the focus has now shifted to viral agents. Part of the reason for the shift of focus is the ease of manipulating viruses, but also there is the drawback that most bacterial infections can be treated quite well with modern antibiotics. Nevertheless, bacterial agents remain an important component of BW.
Pulmonary Anthrax
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms: [3 Days] Fever, malaise, labored breathing, cough.
Advanced Symptoms: [5 Days] All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Notes: Pulmonary Anthrax is common in livestock. It can survive indefinitely in the soil in spore form, although it would require very heavy bombardment for a permanently contaminated anthrax zone to be established.
Brucellosis
Differential Diagnosis: None.
Early Symptoms [7 Days]: Chills, fever, weakness with fatigue and exhaustion, severe headache and backache. Night sweats. Abdominal pains.
Advanced Symptoms [14 Days]: Continued, but worsening.
Cholera
Differential Diagnosis: Baccilary Dysentery
Early Symptoms: [2 Days] Diarrhea passing greyish feces, abdominal cramps, vomiting.
Advanced Symptoms: [6+(4) Days] Dehydration, loss of color, clammy skin, shallow breathing, 20% chance of coma.
Baccilary Dysentery
Differential Diagnosis: Cholera
Early Symptoms: [3 Days] Blood and mucus in feces, fever, chills, abdominal cramps.
Advanced Symptoms: [7 Days] Convulsions, lethargy, anorexia, delerium, 50% chance of coma.
Meningicoccal Meningitis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: High fever, chills, and headache. Pain in the back, abdomen, and extremities. Rash on skin and mucous membranes.
Advanced Symptoms [4 Days]: Confusion and delerium leading to coma. Shock (decreased blood pressure). Muscular spasm. Stiff neck. Exaggerated reflexes. Rash has faded.
Notes: A dangerous infection and inflammation of the meninges, a set of membranes which envelop the brain and spinal column.
Pneumonic Plague
Differential Diagnosis: Flu, Influenza, various Pneumonias.
TRX: Contact with rat-borne fleas. Pneumonic is spread by airborne particles (see notes).
Early Symptoms: [5 Days] Fever, swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain,
Advanced Symptoms: [10 Days] All early symptoms become progressively worse. Also delerium and black rash (rash is for bubonic only--see notes).
Treatment: Antibiotics, relief of symptoms.
Notes: Both the bubonic and pneumonic plague are caused by the same disease organism. The pneumonic form infects the body through the lungs and so the characteristic black rash does not appear.
Tularemia
Differential Diagnosis: Various pneumonias, cat scratch fever, and menigicoccal and rickettsial infections.
Early Symptoms [(3) Days]: Fever, nausea, and headache begin suddenly, with a papule or pimple forming at the point where
the agent contacted the skin. This papule soon ulcerates. If the agent was ingested, there is gastro-intestinal disturbance, stupor, and delerium.
Advanced Symptoms [(6) Days]: Delerium. Prostration. General aches. Lymph nodes become enlarged and tender and start forming pus.
Notes: A common disease among wild rodents (particularly rabbits) which is normally passed on to man through his interactions with the animals. One attack of tularemia generally confers immunity. Vaccine available. Agent intended to kill.
Typhoid Fever (Enteric Fever)
Differential Diagnosis: Viral Pneumonia
Early Symptoms: [7+(3) Days] Increasing fever, chills, malaise, coughs, vomiting.
Advanced Symptoms: [7+(3) Days] Stabilizing fever, diarrhea, listlessness.
Notes: 1% of those infected can become carriers. These people do not develop the symptoms but are treated as being vectors for disease transmission purposes.
Fungal/Mycotal Agents
Coccidioidomycosis
Differential Diagnosis: Any flu-like disease (not listed). Influenza.
Early Symptoms [(2) Days]: Fever and chills, severe pain in lungs, muscular ache, backache, cough, general weakness.
Advanced Symptoms [15 Days]: Prostration. Anorexia. Measle-like rash soon followed by development of painless ring-type patches.
By my count that would be 14 seen in the last 6 months
, and 8 unseen I guess we're under attack boys and girls.Chickungunya Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Dengue, Malaria, Yellow fever, Influenza
Early Symptoms [(6) Days]: Excruciating joint pain causing incapacitation. Fever. Mild headache. Anorexia and constipation.
Dengue Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Malaria, Yellow Fever, Influenza, Chickungunya
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: Sudden onset of high fever and chilliness. There is severe aching of the head, back, and extremi-ties. Sore throat. Prostration. Anorexia and constipation.
Notes: Also called Breakbone fever.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: Influenza
Early Symptoms [(2) Days]: Nausea, vomiting, headache, and fever.
Advanced Symptoms [3 + (6) Days]: After a short period of well being, the following symptoms manifest: very high fever, gastro-intestinal disturbances, convulsions, general rigidity, swelling of limbs and face, cyanosis, and drowsiness possibly leading to coma.
Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (H.I.V)
Differential Diagnosis: None.
Early Symptoms [5 + (3) Months]: H.I.V. progresses to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.). The immune system is slowly destroyed. Substantial weight loss occurs in later part. Persistent fatigue. Diarrhea. Enlarged lymph glands. Night sweats or fevers. Hairy leukoplakia--a hairy white/grey growth on the toungue.
Influenza
Differential Diagnosis: Flu virus (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 Day]: Abrupt onset of fever, chills, malaise, aches, sore throat.
Advanced Symptoms [2 Days]: All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Notes: Influenza is a very serious and often lethal disease that often appears in epidemics. Making it even more lethal is a 20% chance of the patient developing Viral Pneumonia.
Smallpox / Variola
Differential Diagnosis: Chickenpox or Herpes Zoster (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 + (3) Days]: Chills, fever, headaches, lumbar pain, vomiting.
Notes: Believed to have been eradicated by vaccination by the World Health Organization in 1979. Vaccine exists. Agent is intended to kill.
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: Influenza
Early Symptoms: [2 Days] Abrupt onset of fever, chills, malaise, aches, sore throat.
Advanced Symptoms: [(3) Days] All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Viral Pneumonia
Differential Diagnosis: Other pneumonias (not listed).
Early Symptoms: [5 Days] Cough, fever, sore throat, body pain, fluid-filled lungs.
Notes: Viral Pneumonia can sometimes develop (20% chance) after a bout of influenza. Also, the symptoms are duplicated by pneumonic plague (q.v.).
Western Equine Encephalitis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: Headache, drowsiness, fever, gastro-intestinal disturbances.
Yellow Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Hepatitis, Jaundice (not listed)
Early Symptoms [3 Days]: Malaise, headache, fever, pain in eyes, nausea, and vomiting. Also severe body pains, prostration,
bleeding into the skin and from mucous membranes.
Rickettsial Agents
Rickettsia are the causes of obscure but still dangerous diseases. The difficulty in diagnosing such diseases makes them attractive to BW researchers because it prevents a targeted enemy from being able to effectively counteract them.
Rickettsia are between viruses and bacteria in size and are structurally similar to bacteria. Rickettsia follow similar life patterns to bacteria. However, Rickettsia do not have an adequate cell membrane and, like viruses, are prone to destruction by drying out.
Psittacosis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [7 days]: Chills, fever, anorexia, sore throat, malaise, headache.
Notes: Also called parrot fever. Vaccine available.
Q-Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Psittacosis. Brucellosis. Pneumonia, Hepatititis, Tuberculosis (not listed).
Early Symptoms [5 Days]: Prostration, muscle pain, abdominal pain, cough, jaundice.
Advanced Symptoms [7 Days]: Continued
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Differential Diagnosis: Typhoid, measles (not listed)
Early Symptoms [1 + (5) Days]: Anorexia, malaise, nausea, headache, and sore throat. Progresses to include chills, fever, aches in joints, bones, and muscles.
Advanced Symptoms [7 Days]: Vomiting. Rash. Delerium and stupor possibly progressing to coma.
Epidemic Typhus
Differential Diagnosis: Murine (endemic) Typhus (see notes).
Early Symptoms: [7 Days] Fever, malaise, headache, rash.
Advanced Symptoms: [8 Days] Worse rash, delerium, stupor.
Bacterial Agents
Bacterial agents once made up the bulk of BW agents, although much of the focus has now shifted to viral agents. Part of the reason for the shift of focus is the ease of manipulating viruses, but also there is the drawback that most bacterial infections can be treated quite well with modern antibiotics. Nevertheless, bacterial agents remain an important component of BW.
Pulmonary Anthrax
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms: [3 Days] Fever, malaise, labored breathing, cough.
Advanced Symptoms: [5 Days] All early symptoms get progressively worse.
Notes: Pulmonary Anthrax is common in livestock. It can survive indefinitely in the soil in spore form, although it would require very heavy bombardment for a permanently contaminated anthrax zone to be established.
Brucellosis
Differential Diagnosis: None.
Early Symptoms [7 Days]: Chills, fever, weakness with fatigue and exhaustion, severe headache and backache. Night sweats. Abdominal pains.
Advanced Symptoms [14 Days]: Continued, but worsening.
Cholera
Differential Diagnosis: Baccilary Dysentery
Early Symptoms: [2 Days] Diarrhea passing greyish feces, abdominal cramps, vomiting.
Advanced Symptoms: [6+(4) Days] Dehydration, loss of color, clammy skin, shallow breathing, 20% chance of coma.
Baccilary Dysentery
Differential Diagnosis: Cholera
Early Symptoms: [3 Days] Blood and mucus in feces, fever, chills, abdominal cramps.
Advanced Symptoms: [7 Days] Convulsions, lethargy, anorexia, delerium, 50% chance of coma.
Meningicoccal Meningitis
Differential Diagnosis: None
Early Symptoms [4 Days]: High fever, chills, and headache. Pain in the back, abdomen, and extremities. Rash on skin and mucous membranes.
Advanced Symptoms [4 Days]: Confusion and delerium leading to coma. Shock (decreased blood pressure). Muscular spasm. Stiff neck. Exaggerated reflexes. Rash has faded.
Notes: A dangerous infection and inflammation of the meninges, a set of membranes which envelop the brain and spinal column.
Pneumonic Plague
Differential Diagnosis: Flu, Influenza, various Pneumonias.
TRX: Contact with rat-borne fleas. Pneumonic is spread by airborne particles (see notes).
Early Symptoms: [5 Days] Fever, swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain,
Advanced Symptoms: [10 Days] All early symptoms become progressively worse. Also delerium and black rash (rash is for bubonic only--see notes).
Treatment: Antibiotics, relief of symptoms.
Notes: Both the bubonic and pneumonic plague are caused by the same disease organism. The pneumonic form infects the body through the lungs and so the characteristic black rash does not appear.
Tularemia
Differential Diagnosis: Various pneumonias, cat scratch fever, and menigicoccal and rickettsial infections.
Early Symptoms [(3) Days]: Fever, nausea, and headache begin suddenly, with a papule or pimple forming at the point where
the agent contacted the skin. This papule soon ulcerates. If the agent was ingested, there is gastro-intestinal disturbance, stupor, and delerium.
Advanced Symptoms [(6) Days]: Delerium. Prostration. General aches. Lymph nodes become enlarged and tender and start forming pus.
Notes: A common disease among wild rodents (particularly rabbits) which is normally passed on to man through his interactions with the animals. One attack of tularemia generally confers immunity. Vaccine available. Agent intended to kill.
Typhoid Fever (Enteric Fever)
Differential Diagnosis: Viral Pneumonia
Early Symptoms: [7+(3) Days] Increasing fever, chills, malaise, coughs, vomiting.
Advanced Symptoms: [7+(3) Days] Stabilizing fever, diarrhea, listlessness.
Notes: 1% of those infected can become carriers. These people do not develop the symptoms but are treated as being vectors for disease transmission purposes.
Fungal/Mycotal Agents
Coccidioidomycosis
Differential Diagnosis: Any flu-like disease (not listed). Influenza.
Early Symptoms [(2) Days]: Fever and chills, severe pain in lungs, muscular ache, backache, cough, general weakness.
Advanced Symptoms [15 Days]: Prostration. Anorexia. Measle-like rash soon followed by development of painless ring-type patches.
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