What are the symptoms?

There are three different types of anthrax.

Cutaneous anthrax-

95 per cent of cases
People handling dead animals
Infection occurs when the bacterium comes into direct contact with a cut or abrasion in the skin.


Inhalation anthrax

Symptoms are similar to the symptoms of a flu-like infection, like fatigue, weakness, fever, cough, and chest pain.
In two to six days the symptoms will worsen. It is so severe, causing breathing problems, sepsis and bleeding. By this time the infection is usually fatal.


Intestinal anthrax

The most rare type of anthrax.
Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and fever. As the infection becomes more severe , abdominal pain, vomiting of blood and severe diarrhoea, this is the fatal stage of the disease.