POTENTIAL AGRICULTURAL WMDS (WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION)

Bacterial Agents

• Anthrax
• Brucellosis
• Cholera
• Glanders — B
• Plague, Pneumonic — A
• Q Fever — B
• Tularemia — A

Viral Agents

• Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever — A & Malburg Hemorrhagic Fever — A
• Smallpox — A
• VEE — B

Biological Toxins

• Botulinum – A&B
• Clostridium perfringens
• Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
• Ricin — B
• T-2 Mycotoxins

Foodborne Bacterial Agents

• Cryptosporidium parvum — B
• Escherichia coli 0157:H7 — B
• Salmonella species — B
• Shigella dysenteriae — B
• Vibrio cholerae — B

Category C Agents

• Hantaviruses
• Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
• Nipah virus
• Tickborne Hemorrhagic Fever viruses
• Yellow fever virus

Chemical Agents

• Blister agents
• Blood agents
• Bombs, radioactive irradiation — weapons of war
• Corrosive industrial acids/bases
• Dioxins, furans and PCBs
• Explosive nitro compounds
• Flammable industrial gases and liquids
• Heavy metal
• Incapacitating agents
• Nerve gas
• Pesticides
• Pulmonary agents
• Volatile toxins

Other Lists

• APHIS Select Agents List: www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/permits/agr_bioterrorism
• CDC Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases: www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist.asp

Source: WIFSS