An infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals, especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
a species of Bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon
a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia
