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Inhalation anthrax is considered to be nearly 100 per cent fatal. By the time symptoms appear, it is often too late for antibiotic treatment...
...Even in the highly unlikely case that you are diagnosed with anthrax, you have an extraordinarily good chance of surviving with nary a scratch to show for it. The majority of people diagnosed these days have cutaneous anthrax, which is very easy to treat and has never proven fatal in modern times. Inhalation, or pulmonary anthrax, is a bit scarier, but given the right antibiotic (of which there is plenty) you're still looking at better-than-good odds of survival...
Hepatitis A is the one you hear about when it strikes at restaurants, picnics or other large gatherings. Neither blood borne nor generally fatal, it's easily transmitted by an infected food handler. Washing your hands after going to the bathroom and before eating can help prevent its spread. There's also an effective vaccine...
...simply be handed the $4,000 to $6,000 that companies typically spend on their annual health insurance and left to buy an individual policy on the open market. But individual policies tend to be much more expensive than group ones. Buying the wrong kind of coverage could prove fatal. In the absence of risk pooling, older or chronically ill workers might not be able to afford insurance at all. And as the tax code now stands, the cash transfers would be treated as regular income...
...death and Blanco?s diagnosis only served to fan the flames of anxiety raging in a suddenly wary American public. Doctors and public health help lines have been bombarded with questions: What is anthrax? Do I have it now? Could I tell if I had it? Is it always fatal...