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anthrax
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Brave New World
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But in the Kurfurstendamm and the Eighth Arrondissement, the explosion of the anthrax bombs is hardly louder than the popping of a paper bag.†
p. 48.1 *
"I do love flying," they whispered, "I do love flying, I do love having new clothes, I do love ..." "Liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but all the same you couldn't do things by force."†
p. 49.1
What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?†
p. 228.6

Definitions:

(1) (anthrax)
a potentially fatal disease in animals and humans caused by breathing, eating or absorbing through cuts in the skin the Bacillus anthracis bacteria
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)