Anthrax

Anthrax
Anthrax has been around for years, but it is now in this time of fear that it has been brought to the forefront. Panic has caused Americans to worry about a disease that at it’s worst took the life of 66 people when spores were released from a bio-weapons plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1979 as stated in Beckly and Isikoff, 2001, p34-35. This disease Anthrax is “a rare, infectious disease that is transmitted to humans most commonly by farm animals. The disease is caused by the bacterium Bachillus anthracis.” (World Book Medical Encyclopedia, 1988) The disease although used by terrorist, as a biological weapon is not believed to be related to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001.
Anthrax can be absorbed through the body in three ways either by touch, which is the most common and happens in 95% of anthrax cases. Usually it happens with workers who come in contact with contaminated wool, animal hair products or animal hides. They symptoms include rashes that...