Anthrax Article Summary
Anthrax is a spore forming bacterium that comes from the Greek word for ‘coal’. It got the name because of the rashes and legions that look like coal dust. Most people get anthrax from infected animals. Anthrax has been around since biblical times and has been ‘responsible’ for the fifth plague or ‘cattle disease’ and the sixth plague, which would be known now as boils. Anthrax is found in domestic animals like deer, buffalo, elk, and wildebeest and so on, there have been incidents with anthrax in 82 countries. Not many have happened in the states, but the latest concerning animals was in North Dakota in 2000 in which 5 cows were infected. But in dirty countries anthrax is a household name, in fact, in 1945, one million sheep died in Iran. The hotspots for anthrax are South and Central America, Eastern and Southern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Most of the time, meat-eating animals are the hosts for anthrax. The endospores in anthrax are heat resi
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Africa Caribbean, Summary Anthrax, Soviet Union, Minnesota Anthrax, North Dakota, cutaneous anthrax, gastrointestinal anthrax, bacteria anthrax,
Approximate Word count = 680
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
 |
