There are different and similar symptoms that occur in each anthrax infection. Symptoms of anthrax may possibly take 1 day to 2 months for any sign, and if not treated, the outcomes would cause severe illness.
Symptoms of Cutaneous Anthrax InfectionThe symptoms of cutaneous anthrax begin to appear after 1 to 12 days of exposure to anthrax. Small black blisters are formed that are itchy and grouped and are either located on the face, neck, arms, or hands. This is though painless. Swelling also occurs around the sore. A scab is produced and usually dies within 2 weeks. Painful lymph nodes, fever and chills, headaches, and malaise are other symptoms that occur but not on all patients.
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Symptoms of Gastrointestinal Anthrax InfectionGastrointestinal anthrax has symptoms that can be very painful and annoying and start appearing 1 to 7 days. Symptoms that first occur are associated with difficulty swallowing with a sore throat, hoarseness, often headaches, flushing with red face and eyes, loss of appetite as well as vomiting or have a fever. Swelling in the throat makes breathing even more difficult with bloody vomiting or diaherria, and the building up of fluids in the stomach causes stomach pain. If not treated after these symptoms, shocks and death will occur.
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Symptoms of Inhalation Anthrax Infection
Inhalation anthrax symptoms may start appearing 1 to 7 days after exposure, but is also able to start appearing as long as 60 days. First symptoms may make the patient feel very ill like a flu containing a sore painful throat, with muscles in the body aching, tiredness, dizzinesss as well as headaches, shortness of oxygen, mild fever and chills, discomfort in the chest, nausea, and vomiting or pains in the stomach. After about 1 to 5 days after the first symptoms, difficulty breathing associated with a high fever and shocks will occur. Sadly in about 1 to 2 days later without treatment, the patient is at a risk of death.
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Symptoms of Injection Anthrax InfectionInjection anthrax symptoms are very similar to the symptoms of cutaneous anthrax. The only other symptom of injection anthrax is that abscesses are produced located in a muscle or deep under the skin depending on where the drug was injected.
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