The skin form of anthrax accounts for 95 percent of all anthrax cases in the United States. Nevertheless, it is very rare, usually causing only a case or two a year.

The skin form of anthrax accounts for 95 percent of all anthrax cases in the United States. Nevertheless, it is very rare, usually causing only a case or two a year.

SKIN: Anthrax is a serious disease that can affect bothanimals and humans. It is caused by bacteriacalled Bacillus anthracis. People can get anthraxfrom contact with infected animals, wool, meat ...

There are three forms of the disease: cutaneous anthrax, which is highly treatable, and inhalation and intestinal anthrax, which are usually lethal.

The skin form of anthrax accounts for 95 percent of all anthrax cases in the United States. Nevertheless, it is very rare, usually causing only a case or two a year.

Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. There are three forms of anthrax: inhalation, intestinal and cutaneous in which the skin is infected.

The skin form of anthrax accounts for 95 percent of all anthrax cases in the United States. Nevertheless, it is very rare, usually causing only a case or two a year.

SKIN: Anthrax is a serious disease that can affect bothanimals and humans. It is caused by bacteriacalled Bacillus anthracis. People can get anthraxfrom contact with infected animals, wool, meat, o… ...

The "cutaneous" form of the disease, in which the anthrax bacteria enter the body through a cut on the skin, clears up quickly with antibiotics and is "rarely lethal," he says.

The skin form of anthrax accounts for 95 percent of all anthrax cases in the United States. Nevertheless, it is very rare, usually causing only a case or two a year.

Anthrax skin infections are the least deadly kind of anthrax infection, especially with treatment. But it can still kill one in five people who are infected if it’s left untreated.