Anthrax

Anthrax What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You “You sound like you have a cold,” my grandpa said over the phone. “Yeah, I have had it for almost two months now but it seems to be getting better,” I replied. “Gee, I hope it’s not Anthrax!” he darted back at me without hesitation. After the routine small talk I hung up the phone since my mom was not home to talk to him. I thought to myself, “He is loosing it worse than I thought! Anthrax is only found in livestock.” I told my mom he called and about the laugh I had but then she informed me that livestock was the most common carriers but not the only. After that incident, I started to ponder about this deadly disease. Is it a disease' To start, all I knew to be true about Anthrax is that it can kill people and that the vaccine is not available to the general public. After searching on the Internet for information I found the most common definition for Anthrax to be this: Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus Anthracis. The anthrax, disease, about, after, common, until, three, thought, prevention, control, centers, passed, mom, gastrointestinal, found, form, days, cutaneous, contaminated, being, because, years, without, very, united, type, toxin, told, talk, states, starts, small, skin, since, seven