Bioterrorism agents

Security Sensitive Biological Agent (SSBA)

• Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/human-pathogens-toxins-act/security-sensitive-biological-agents.html

Viruses

• Andes virus
• Chapare virus
• Chikungunya virus
• Choclo virus
• Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever virus
• Dobrava-Belgrade virus
• Eastern equine encephalitis virus
• Ebola virus
• Guanarito virus
• Hantaan virus
• Hendra virus (Equine morbillivirus)
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
• Japanese encephalitis virus
• Junin virus
• Kyasanur Forest virus
• Laguna Negra virus
• Lassa fever virus
• Louping ill virus
• Lujo virus
• Machupo virus
• Marburg virus
• Monkey pox virus
• Murray Valley encephalitis virus
• Nipah virus
• Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus
• Oropouche virus
• Powassan virus
• Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus
• Rift Valley fever virus
• Rocio virus
• Sabia virus
• Seoul virus
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV)
• Sin nombre virus
• St Louis encephalitis virus
• Tick-borne encephalitis virus (Russian Spring-Summer encephalitis virus)
• Variola virus
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
• Western equine encephalitis virus
• Yellow fever virus

Bacteria

• Bacillus anthracis, B. abortus, B. melitensis, and B. suis
• Chlamydophila psittaci
• Francisella tularensis
• Burkholderia mallei and B. pseudomallei
• Yersinia pestis
• Coxiella burnetii
• Rickettsia prowazekii

Fungi

• Coccidioides immitis'' and ''C. posadasii

Toxins

• Alpha toxin (5 mg)
• Botulinum neurotoxin (0.5 mg)
• Cholera toxin (20 mg)
• Clostridium botulinum C2 and C3 toxins (5 mg)
• Clostridium perfringens Epsilon toxin (5 mg)
• Hemolysin (10 mg)
• Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) (1 mg)
• Shigatoxin (1mg)
• Staphylococcus enterotoxins, Type B (1 mg)
• Staphylococcus enterotoxins, types other than Type B (10 mg)
• Staphylococcus aureus Toxic shock syndrome toxin (5 mg)

CDC Categories

• Source: CDC 2018

Category A

• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Plague
• Smallpox
• Tularemia
• Viral hemorrhagic fevers, including filoviruses (Ebola virus, Marburg virus) and arenaviruses (Lassa virus, Machupo virus)

Category B

• Brucellosis
• Epsilon toxin of Clostridum perfringens
• Food safety threats including Salmonella species, E. coli O157:H7, and Shigella
• Glanders
• Melioidosis
• Psittacosis
• Q fever
• Ricin toxin from Ricinus communis
• Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
• Typhus fever
• Viral encephalitis (alphaviruses)
• Water safety threats (Vibrio cholerae, Cryptosporidium parvum)

Category C

• Emerging infectious diseases such as Nipah virus and hantavirus