21. On 22 May 1907 Bland received a telegram from the Police at Balik Pulau reporting that Glanders had broken out there. 22. During World War I, Germany infected horses with bacteria that cause glanders , a fatal disease in both human and horses. 23. He obtained the nickname " Shot-gun Charlie " from his handling of Glanders Disease in Manitoba between 1905 and 1910. 24. And they hatched several plots to infect horses and sheep with glanders , a bacterium that can be deadly to animals and humans. 25. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not explain how the microbiologist contracted glanders , a potentially fatal disease. 26. Around the beginning of the 20th century, glanders killed many horses and was often fatal to humans who came into contact with it. 27. _No vaccine exists for glanders , the bacterial diseases that gives victims fevers, aches, chest pains and pus-filled bumps. 28. Glanders has not been reported in the United States since 1945, except in 2000 when an American lab researcher suffered from accidental exposure.29. -- 1916-18 : German agents use anthrax and the equine disease glanders to infect livestock and feed for export to Allied forces. 30. It is phylogenetically related closely to " Burkholderia mallei " which causes glanders , an infection primarily of horses, donkeys, and mules.
