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Vehicles for the transmission of category A agents in nature
| Agent | Transmission ina:
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Water/liquids | Soil | Fomites | |
| Bacillus anthracis | X | X | X | |
| Yellow fever virus (Flaviviridae) | ||||
| Francisella tularensis | X | X | X | X |
| Yersinia pestis | X | |||
| Hantavirus (Bunyaviridae) | X | X | X | |
| Smallpox virus | X | X | ||
| Ebola and Marburg viruses (Filoviridae) | X | |||
| Lassa virus (Arenaviridae) | X | |||
“X” indicates transmission.
