glanders in English
noun
1
a rare contagious disease that mainly affects horses, characterized by swellings below the jaw and mucous discharge from the nostrils.
The Germans used anthrax and glanders against the horses and mules of the US Army and its Allies in World War I.
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1. Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed (1970s) Agents (former): Plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, potato beetle, wheat fungus
2. II.1.2. in the country of dispatch the following diseases are compulsorily notifiable: African horse sickness, dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum), glanders (Burkholderia mallei), equine encephalomyelitis (of all types including Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis), equine infectious anaemia, vesicular stomatitis, rabies and anthrax;