What is anthill?
Anthrax is a rare but serious illness caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax mainly affects livestock and wild game.
Humans can become infected through direct or indirect contact with sick animals. There's no evidence that anthrax is transmitted from person to person..
Usually, anthrax bacteria enter the body through a wound in the skin. You can also become infected by eating contaminated meat or inhaling the spores.
Signs and symptoms, which depend on how you're infected, can include skin sores, vomiting and shock. Prompt treatment with antibiotics can cure most anthrax infections. Inhaled anthrax is more difficult to treat and can be fatal.
Symptoms
There are four common routes of anthrax infection, each with different signs and symptoms. In most cases, symptoms develop within six days of exposure to the bacteria. However, it's possible for inhalation anthrax symptoms to take more than six weeks to appear.
Signs and symptoms of cutaneous anthrax include:
- A raised, itchy bump resembling an insect bite that quickly develops into a painless sore with a black center
- Swelling in the sore and nearby lymph glands
- Sometimes, flu-like symptoms including fever and headache
Signs and symptoms of gastrointestinal anthrax include:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Headache
- Loss of appetite
- Fever
- Severe, bloody diarrhea in the later stages of the disease
- Sore throat and difficulty swallowing
- Swollen neck
Initial signs and symptoms of inhalation anthrax include:
- Flu-like symptoms for a few hours or days, such as sore throat, mild fever, fatigue and muscle aches
- Mild chest discomfort
- Shortness of breath
- Nausea
- Coughing up blood
- Painful swallowing
- High fever
- Trouble breathing
- Shock
- Meningitis
Initial signs and symptoms of injection anthrax include:
- Redness at the area of injection (without an area that changes to black)
- Significant swelling
- Shock
- Multiple organ failure
- Meningitis
Source:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anthrax/symptoms-causes/syc-
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