Modern/Post-War Photos

Anthrax - how it works; what it does (1).

This is a "topical" anthrax sore; it looks bad enough. Anthrax is, essentially, a soil-borne disease of herbivores, normally ingested while feeding. However, it can also infect topically (by touch), and in the breath. Humans, in the distant past, generally contracted anthrax topically or (in the cases of professions such as farmers and tanners, who had a high level of contact with infected animals) through inhalation. The principle of the UK anthrax bomb was to enable the targets to inhale the anthrax endospores in aerosol form. The experiments on Gruinard Island were successful in developing devices capable of producing this effect on a wide scale. JR.