RECOGNITION, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFLUENZA
When is anthrax infection easily recognizable?
The diagnosis of anthrax infection is fairly easy with the skin form. Confirmation of diagnosis is confirmed by anthrax bacilli in black pustules. Because the anthrax bacillus grows quickly, the seeding result is available after 24 hours.
How to recognize other forms of anthrax infection?
You can detect antigens of anthrax bacteria, look for a specific DNA sequence, characteristic for anthrax, or determine the level and dynamics of specific antibodies in the patient's serum. The last method more than in diagnosing the current disease is useful when confirming a previous illness.
Diagnosis of food-borne anthrax infection
It is much harder to recognize the intestinal form of anthrax. When symptoms of the disease occur, a stool, vomit examination can be carried out. peritoneal exudation. and the blood of a sick person.
Pulmonary form of infection
The pulmonary form lasts the shortest, hence there is not much time to make a diagnosis. X-ray picture showing the widening of the pulmonary cavities may, in combination with epidemiological data, suggest a diagnosis.
Who is most at risk for infection?
Persons professionally in contact with animals due to official duties are at risk: employees of veterinary services, breeders, sorters and skin sorters, etc. In the era of terrorism, public people are also at risk - mainly politicians and postal workers.
Prevention of anthrax
People from risk groups undergo preventive vaccination. Routine, diligent veterinary control and possible vaccinations of endangered farm animals are important. The sick animal should be killed and the corpse burned or buried deeply after kerosene. (Spores can survive in the earth for several decades - ed.).
Treatment with antibiotics
Most common antibiotics are effective in the case of the disease. Treatment should last at least 60 days. Antibiotics can also be started prophylactically if there is a risk of infection. Treatment with antibiotics does not accelerate the healing of the black pustule on the skin, but protects against a lethal threat to life - means a massive infection of the whole organism - eg anthrax sepsis.
Antibiotic will not protect against a terrorist attack?
Experts warn that the antibiotics most often recommended for the treatment of anthrax may be ineffective in the event of a terrorist attack. This is because the anthrax strains specially cultivated as weapons are most likely to have been immune to their effects in the laboratory.
Natural resistance?
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in industrial plants processing animal products, in tanneries, woolen and wool, as a result of using products from sick and fallen animals, airborne spores of anthrax rose constantly in the air. Despite this, people working there rarely suffered from pulmonary disease. In man, this proves the ability to have a certain natural resistance to infection.
Vaccines against anthrax
Vaccines against disease use the ability to be immune to anthrax bacilli. To be effective, they should be repeated six times in 18 months and then repeated every year. Protection is obtained after about four weeks. Current vaccines against anthrax infection cause the vaccinees to develop specific antibodies against anthrax toxin. Unfortunately, they cause side effects and post-vaccination complications.In 1 to 3 people in 10 vaccinated with the "old" American vaccine, muscle pains, autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity to many chemical compounds or damage to peripheral nerves were observed. The Russian vaccine is not safe. Currently, intensive research is being carried out to produce a safe vaccine that gives full and lasting immunity and is eligible, if necessary, for large-scale use in people of all ages.
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Pismiennnictwo
Medical encyclopedias, including the Little Encyclopedia of PWN
Anthrax - Truth and myths; Zdzisław Dziubek, Wojciech Basiak - PZWL Medical Publishing.
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2. SHOW SKIN OF INJECTION
3. POSTAÆ ŻŁŁONDĄOWO-JELITOWA PRZEMIAZIA ACCURACY
4. POSTAÆ LUNGS OF INFLUENCE WITH CARBOLIC FERTILIZER AND POSITIBILITY
5. DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFECTIONS WITH BRAKE
