A 21-year-old member asked:
what are the symptoms for anthrax?
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Dr. Traci Buxton answered
23 years experience Family Medicine
Flu-like symptoms: Anthrax causes fever, chills, body aches, swelling, and blackened skin ulcers at the area of exposure.
Answered on Jul 5, 2012
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Three main types: Anthrax has three main clinical types, in increasing order of severity, cutaneous (skin) gastro-intestinal and pulmonary. Check the site below for symptoms of each.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/pmh0002301/.
Answered on Jan 7, 2019
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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Lung, skin, GI: Skin anthrax presents an ulcer and is the least dangerous. Gi anthrax causes bloody diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain etc.
Inhalational anthrax is the ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Bacterial infection: Anthrax is a bacterial infection with three major types of manifestations, in order or severity, cutaneous, gastrointestinal and pulmonary. Pulmonary ... Read More
A 16-year-old member asked:
Dr. James Ferguson answered
46 years experience Pediatrics
Depends on form: The worst form, inhalation anthrax is flu like early with low grade fever, fatigue, non-productive cough, muscle aches, etc.One to 5 days later there ... Read More
A 17-year-old male asked:
Dr. Gregory Patrick answered
45 years experience Pulmonology
Probably not: Unless you work with infected animals or animal products (hair, wool, hides) or are a target for bioterrorism you are unlikely to be exposed to anthra ... Read More
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