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...anthrax and how doctors might deal with an outbreak. When Bacillus anthracis emerges from inhaled spores, they knew, it grows and multiplies and starts secreting a powerful toxin that chews through tissue and enters the bloodstream. From there the poison spreads throughout the body to attack internal organs. Lymph nodes, meanwhile, clogged with immune-system cells that have been summoned to fight the invader, begin to press on the organs and interfere with their functioning...
This suggested, says Walker, that doctors must find better ways to drain lymph from around the organs, in order to relieve the pressure. And they need to develop an antitoxin, since even when antibiotics kill off the bacteria, the poison that the bug has emitted can still kill the patient. There is also an anthrax vaccine, made exclusively for the U.S. government by a private manufacturer named BioPort in Lansing, Mich. But in 1999 the FDA asked the company to stop shipment of its vaccine until BioPort instituted better quality-control measures. The company expects to begin shipping vaccines again...
Upon inhalation of at least 8,000 to 10,000 spores, the bacteria is transported to lymph nodes and then to the blood. It produces a toxin that causes massive cell death. This form of the disease begins with symptoms similar to a common cold...
...patients made full recoveries. Both cutaneous and inhaled anthrax are easily treated in their early stages with rounds of an antibiotic, such as Cipro. Cutaneous anthrax is only particularly dangerous in the unlikely event that it enters the body via a cut and then finds its way to local lymph nodes...
...creates the illness in the host: First you see non-specific flu-like symptoms. Then, in hours or in a few days, some patients will have a brief period of recovery. Others progress directly to the second stage of the disease, which generally leads to shock, massive swelling of lymph nodes and hemorrhagic meningitis (bleeding in the brain...