Anthrax This essay is simply entitled Anthrax. It is a brief description of the bacteria Anthrax and its effects on various aspects of life.

Anthrax is one of the oldest known diseases caused by the bacteria bacillus anthracis. One theory about this disease is that anthrax was the Fifth Plague of Egypt mentioned in The Bible. Casimir Davaine first saw these rod-shaped bacteria in 1850. In 1876, Robert Koch discovered that bacillus anthracis caused the Anthrax disease. Louis Pastaeu developed a vaccine for anthrax. The anthrax disease is found in warm-blooded animals, including humans, although it is less common among humans …

…through open cuts in the skin. Any person who handles infected animals or animal hides with open flesh wounds is in danger of allowing the bacillus anthracis through his bloodstream. The other way is by inhaling anthrax spores from animal hide, enabling the spores to enter the lungs. Once a human is diagnosed with anthrax, swelling around the area of infection may occur. The most common form of treatment for the anthrax disease is Penicillin.