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Anthrax, a bacterial disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, can have devastating effects on animals. It primarily affects herbivores such as cattle, sheep, and goats, but a wide range of mammals, birds, and even humans can also be susceptible.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said that, so far, the moose is the only wild animal with a documented case of anthrax in this outbreak. The last confirmed case in the wild was in Sublette ...
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Anthrax is a bacteria found naturally in soil and commonly affects animals that come in contract with spores in contaminated soil, plants, or water. It mostly infects susceptible herbivores, such ...
The symptoms in anthrax depend on the type of infection and can take anywhere from 1 day to more than 2 months to appear. All types of anthrax have the potential, if untreated, to spread throughout the body and cause severe illness and even death. [24] Four forms of human anthrax disease are recognized based on their portal of entry.
Anthrax spores are able to be dispersed via multiple methods and infect humans with ease. [4] The symptoms present as a common cold or flu, and may take weeks before appearing. [3] [6] The destructive effects of an anthrax attack on a large city may have the destructive capacity of a nuclear weapon. [4]
Regular breathing and internal hemorrhaging are inconsistent with nerve agent exposure, [7] and "no other animals of any type, including cows, horses, dogs, rabbits, or birds, appeared to have suffered any ill effects, a circumstance that was hard to explain if VX had in fact caused the sheep deaths." [5]
Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming, Gram positive, rod-shaped bacterium (Fig. 1).The lethality of the disease is caused by the bacterium's two principal virulence factors: (i) the polyglutamic acid capsule, which is anti-phagocytic, and (ii) the tripartite protein toxin, called anthrax toxin.