Vollum strain
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Vollum strain
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The Vollum strain is one of the 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium. It is named Vollum after Roy Vollum, the Canadian-born bacteriologist who first isolated it from a cow in Oxford, England. The "Vollum 14578" strain was selected for use in the bioweapons trials on Gruinard Island, which took place in 1942. Like other forms of anthrax, the Vollum strain becomes more virulent with exposure to more hosts. A sub-strain called Vollum 1B was weaponized and was used in American warheads during
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Strain of anthrax
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vollum_strain
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2022-05-26T13:46:20Z
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