Symptoms

The incubation period is really short because after the contact with the anthrax and start of the symptoms it will take one to five days for the individual to feel the effects. As I mentioned before there are three forms of diseases caused by anthrax and they are cutaneous anthrax, inhalation anthrax, and gastrointestinal anthrax. Each of this anthrax has different symptoms. The symptoms of cutaneous anthrax are muscle aches and pain, headache, fever, nausea, and vomiting. The illness should resolve in six weeks but you can die if you don’t receive the proper antibodies. The first symptom for inhalation anthrax is subtle, gradual and flu. In few days this can turn into deadly symptoms and this can cause shock, coma or death. Gastrointestinal anthrax is caused by eating undercooked, contaminated meat. The symptoms for gastrointestinal anthrax nausea, loss of appetite, bloody diarrhea and fever followed by abdominal pain.