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Death!! Both you and your friend have died
because of our experiment. Luckily, the dying does
not end here, as a result of your deaths more suffering will come!

ANTHRAX
How does it destroy, or assist in
destroying the body?
The anthrax spore grows in the
body, and bacteria starts to grow. The bacteria releases three
proteins, Protective Antigen (PA), Lethal Factor (LF), and Edema Factor (EF).
Protective Antigen (PA): provides the other proteins a method of entering
the healthy cells of the
body.
Lethal Factor (LF): disrupts cell activity and kills the cell.
Edema Factor (EF): stops the flow of ions in the cell, and causes fluid to
build up (edema).
SMALLPOX
How does
it destroy, or assist in destroying the body?
The smallpox virus is parasitic. The small pox virus functions
as a normal virus, it enters the body
and utilizes the host's cells to reproduce and through the process the
host's cells die, while the virus
is propagating.
CONTINUING EFFECTS
What will happen in
real Life?
If given
appropriate weather and wind conditions fifty kilograms of anthrax released
from an
aircraft along a two-kilometre strip could create a lethal cloud twenty
kilometres downwind.
Almost anyone in the vicinity would be infected. If a release of
aerosolized anthrax upwind
of a population of five million could lead to an estimated two hundred
fifty thousand
casualties and one hundred thousand of those casualties would die. If a
release of one
hundred kilograms of aerosolized anthrax was dropped over Washington, D.C,
one hundred
thirty thousand to three million deaths could occur, making it more
lethal than a hydrogen
bomb.
Environmental Impact
If ever a deadly biological agent, like anthrax or small pox, was ever
found in an environment, and
had already contaminated some of the organisms in that environment, then
the organisms that feed
on these organisms would start die as well. These organisms would die if
they consumed an
organism originally contaminated with anthrax. However the organism that
is one trophic level lower
then the contaminated organism is, it would increase in its population,
since now there are less
predators/consumers, given that they are all dying. Thus resulting in a
very unbalanced
environment, all the organisms that are in the higher trophic levels
would soon disappear. Therefore
only the lower trophic level organism can then be found in this once full
of life, and various animal
environment. The only possible way for these lost organism to return
back into the environment
would be after many decades, where the agent is now gone. Therefore
allowing an existing
organism in another environment to migrate to this environment. If these
did not happen, the
environment would continue to contain all the low trophic level
organisms, thus creating a simple
environment.
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