The symptoms of this disease differ depending on how it was contracted. The first symptoms usually take place within seven days of exposure. After an exposure, symptoms of inhalation anthrax normally appear sooner than symptoms of cutaneous anthrax.
Inhalation Anthrax:
The primary symptoms of inhalation anthrax may be like those of a common cold or flu. They might start with a cough. But in few days, the symptoms may develop into nausea and severe breathing problems and entire collapse of bodily functions, known as shock.
The greater parts of patients with inhalation anthrax die, usually within a day or two after the appearance of severe breathing problems, in spite of treatment with antibiotics. Inhalation anthrax can be effectively treated if the appropriate antibiotic therapy is started very early.
Cutaneous Anthrax:
When anthrax spores enter a skin cut, skin infection begins as a increased itchy bump that resembles an insect bite. Within a day or two it develops into a blister and then a painless ulcer, usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a dying region in the center.
Lymph glands in the adjacent part may swell. Swelling, headache and Fever may follow. About 20% of untreated causes of cutaneous anthrax effect in death. Deaths are rare when the appropriate antibiotic therapy is applied.
Gastrointestinal Anthrax:
Intestinal anthrax effects in a severe inflammation of the intestinal tract. The primary signs are nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea.
Intestinal anthrax results in death in 25% to 60% of global cases. As noted, no such cases have been accounted in the United States in the last fifty years.
Once inside the body and lungs, anthrax spores migrate to the lymph nodes and modify to the bacterial form. The bacteria multiply and generate toxins. The toxins cause bleeding and destruction of structures in the center of the chest.
Inhalation Anthrax:
The primary symptoms of inhalation anthrax may be like those of a common cold or flu. They might start with a cough. But in few days, the symptoms may develop into nausea and severe breathing problems and entire collapse of bodily functions, known as shock.
The greater parts of patients with inhalation anthrax die, usually within a day or two after the appearance of severe breathing problems, in spite of treatment with antibiotics. Inhalation anthrax can be effectively treated if the appropriate antibiotic therapy is started very early.
Cutaneous Anthrax:
When anthrax spores enter a skin cut, skin infection begins as a increased itchy bump that resembles an insect bite. Within a day or two it develops into a blister and then a painless ulcer, usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a dying region in the center.
Lymph glands in the adjacent part may swell. Swelling, headache and Fever may follow. About 20% of untreated causes of cutaneous anthrax effect in death. Deaths are rare when the appropriate antibiotic therapy is applied.
Gastrointestinal Anthrax:
Intestinal anthrax effects in a severe inflammation of the intestinal tract. The primary signs are nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea.
Intestinal anthrax results in death in 25% to 60% of global cases. As noted, no such cases have been accounted in the United States in the last fifty years.
Once inside the body and lungs, anthrax spores migrate to the lymph nodes and modify to the bacterial form. The bacteria multiply and generate toxins. The toxins cause bleeding and destruction of structures in the center of the chest.
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