Bioterrorism agents
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Security Sensitive Biological Agent (SSBA)
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
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
