The disease is also known as Woolsorters' disease, ragpickers' disease and charbon. It is primarily found in hoofed animals with hides, such as goats and cattle. The disease is spread to man by contact with infected animal hide or meat on open wounds or internal membranes. It is not spread from person to person by respiratory means, unlike many viruses. Anthrax is found worldwide, although many Western countries have nearly eliminated the disease by vaccinating animals against the disease.

Three forms of the disease exist in man. The coetaneous (skin) form is the most common among workers contacting infected animals with ent

Personally, I believe that the same person behind the World Trade Center attacks, Osama bin Laden, id behind these anthrax attacks as well. I find it to be a little more than coincidence that these chemical attacks would just happen to start on the US a short time after the World Trade Center was attacked. That's only my opinion though and can't be proven because nobody has found that much evidence to trace it back to a concrete suspect.

Human disease is primarily limited to those working with infected animals or individuals in third world countries exposed to infected, unvaccinated animals. Over 10,000 cases were reported in Zimbabwe from 1979 to 1985. Approximately 2000 cases occur annually worldwide. Only 224 cases of coetaneous anthrax were reported in the US in the fifty-year period ending in 1994. Even more rare, only 18 human cases of the inhalation form were reported in the US this century.

In November 1970, the Division of Biologics Standards (NIH) approved the vaccine for human use in the United States. The FDA approved schedule for the vaccine includes six doses in the primary series. The first three doses are given at two week intervals followed by three doses at six month intervals from the initial vaccination. Annual vaccines are then required to maintain high levels of immunity. Approximately 68,000 doses were given to civilians, mostly veterinarians, from 1970 to 1989. The initial mass immunization of the military began during Operation Desert Shield when over a quarter of a million doses were administered to approximately 150,000 people, but exact numbers of individuals immunized and numbers of doses per individual are not known due to administrative lapses. Since 1998, over 1.98 million doses have been given.

Overall, I believe that this s a serious time that we are going through but most of these anthrax problems should be very easy to avoid if you ever experience one in your home. I also believe that if these people would get a grip on themselves and calm down a keep a straight train of thought, they would make things a lot easier on themselves as well as everyone else.

It would also be bad if people started taking the antibiotics before they actually caught the disease because just taking the antibiotics without anything for them to treat could cause serious problems. Also, they would be wasting the antibiotics for the people that may really need it.

Breathing anthrax spores, which settle in the lung and reactivate in the favorable environment of the body, causes the inhalation form. It is a rare form of the disease, but is the primary form of this disease used in biological warfare and domestic bioterrorism weapons. Symptoms usually start as a cough and fever over one to two days, but rapidly progress to respiratory failure, shock and death. Because of the difficulty in recognizing and quickly diagnosing the disease, delay in treatment of unprotected individuals has very low survival rates. Previous exposure to anthrax or the vaccine confers some degree of immunity.

There is already a shortage of Cipro and people are just going buying it like they have already contracted anthrax. But if a person that really does need badly and there's no more left and that time because all of their stock was sold out to people that were not even sick, that person that needed could be in some serious trouble or danger.

Investigators leave open the possibility that domestic extremists may lurk behind the anthrax attacks. Antiabortion militants have sent more than 100 powder-packed letters to Planned Parenthood clinics since September 11. All were hoaxes. But other extremists have experimented with biological and chemical agents. In 1995, authorities arrested a white supremacist named Larry Wayne Harris, a microbiologist, with three vials of the bacteria that cause bubonic plague. In an interview with U.S. News, Harris claimed to have cultured anthrax from a cow graveyard in Ohio.

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