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  1. 6. A major tick-borne disease caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium
  2. 8. A gram-negative bipolar aerobic bacterium that causes Glanders
  3. 11. flaccid paralysis, possible respiratory and cardiac failure, nausea with no fever, neurological symptoms, double or blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, general weakness, unable to produce immunity
  4. 12. Symptoms include pustules on skin, septiemia, fever, fatigue, cough, chest discomfort, breathing difficulty, sweating, turning blue, like influenza
  5. 13. A Gram-negative, comma-shaped bacterium that can causes the disease cholera
  6. 14. Symptoms include dark blue areas on skin, fever, cough, difficulty breathing, blood to lymph system, enlarged lymph nodes in armpit and groin, buboes, septicemia/septic shock, lungs/pneumonic, like influenza
  7. 17. A Gram-negative, bipolar, aerobic, motile rod-shaped bacterium that causes the disease melioidosis
  8. 20. Symptoms include progressive flaccid paralysis, possible respiratory and cardiac failure, nausea with no fever, neurological symptoms, double or blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, general weakness, unable to produce immunity
  9. 23. An obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, and is the causative agent of Q fever
  10. 24. Toxin that produces a disease whos symptoms include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea (often bloody), and vomiting
  11. 25. Causes smallpox
  12. 26. Transmitted from pet bird to human and causes parrot disease
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  1. 1. Symptoms include fatigue, back ache, fever, headache, stuffy nose, rash, highy contagious, transmitted by respiratory routes, pustules, systemic viral infection affecting internal organs
  2. 2. A family of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae. hemorrhagic fever
  3. 3. A type of filovirus. German 1967. Hemorrhagic fever
  4. 4. Causes tularemia
  5. 5. Poison found naturally in castor beans.
  6. 7. Signs and symptoms of this virus are similar to smallpox but are more mild
  7. 9. An intracellular, bacillus bacterium that is the cause of epidemic typhus in humans
  8. 10. Disease common between humans and animals
  9. 15. Causes the plague
  10. 16. Source of infant botulism
  11. 18. Arenavirus. Hemorrhagic fever
  12. 19. Coccidioides posadasii is a pathogenic _____ that is the causative agent of Valley Fever
  13. 21. Symptoms include local inflammation, small ulcer at site of infection, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, septicemia, pneumonia, absecesses
  14. 22. Found naturally in soil and commonly affects domestic and wild animals around the world. Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria