A 21-year-old member asked:
What are the symptoms for anthrax?
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Dr. Traci Buxtonanswered
Family Medicine 24 years experience
Flu-like symptoms: Anthrax causes fever, chills, body aches, swelling, and blackened skin ulcers at the area of exposure.
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Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 50 years experience
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/.
5.6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
Last updated Jan 7, 2019
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