Shintya Audrey

XI Social 1/18

Anthrax
Can the health give happiness as much as money? People think money will bring happiness
and can do everything with money, but its all useless without health. People only thinks about
money, but what happen if they dont notice their health? Then its useless. By health, people can do
anything. Money and life will be useless if people dont have health. Although people are rich but
unhealthy, their money will run out for catching their health. When health, people never think
healthy, but when sick people start to think that health is very important. Do they realize that the
disease will come anytime if people dont care about health from now? A lot of people suddenly
getting disease, because its no planning. For example, like anthrax, in 2000 at least 2.000 people
around the world contracted the disease from animals, according to incomplete statistics from the
World Organization for Animal Health, which tracks human anthrax infections as people as animal
outbreaks. People must be smart to keep body health, or people will become one of the victims.
In the US, there have been 17 confirmed anthrax infections, according to the centers for
disease control and prevention. Five of the inhalation victims have died. More than 10,000 people
who may have been exposed to the bacteria have been urged to begin taking antibiotics as a
precaution. Anthrax victims very variety, from herbivore animals to humans. Some of the symptoms
of gastrointestinal anthrax are nausea, dizziness, vomiting, no appetite, increased body temperature,
brown or black vomit, black bowel movements, extreme abdominal pain. Meanwhile, the type of skin
anthrax symptoms is a small red painkiller. Then the lesion enlarges, becomes ulcers, ruptures and
becomes a wound. The surrounding tissue swells, and the lesions are itchy but rather painful.
Inhalation anthrax symptoms are flu, such as fever, sore throat, sore muscles, and fatigue.

Anthrax cause by Bacillus anthracis. How do animals get infected by anthrax? Anthrax just
can happen to cow in animal. Cow can become infected when it breathes in or ingest spores in
contaminated soil, plants, or water. After that anthrax can attack human body in three ways, skin
contact, inhalation, and contaminated meat. Skin Anthrax occurs because bacteria infect the patient's
body through cuts or other cuts in the skin. Gastrointestinal anthrax occurs because anthrax bacteria
enter the patient's body through the consumption of anthrax-infected animals, which are not cooked
until cooked. The meat affected by anthrax has the following characteristics, black, slimy, and smelly.
Inhalation anthrax occurs because humans inhale anthrax spores. But anthrax is not contagious from
person to person.

So, knowing that health is more precious than money,

It should take precautions to avoid anthrax. There are very many ways of prevention, for cows as the
first victim before attack human, anthrax vaccine is given regularly every year on unaffected cow.
Checking, cleaning and quarantine if in an area already affected by anthrax, and do not feed the cow
with the roots, usually forage give only grass. For human, this is very important because almost every
day human consume the meat of cow, so this is make people afraid will get anthrax. People must be
careful when choose the meat of cow. People must differentiate between healthy meat and the one
that gets infected. Besides that, dont eat immature meat, because it increases the possibility to get
anthrax, if the meat from anthrax cow.

In general, treatment for anthrax can be done with antibiotics, usually penicillin, which will
stop the growth and production of toxins. Another antibiotic is ciprofloxacin,
doxycycline, and levofloxacin. Giving antitoxin will facilitate the binding of toxins against cells.
Additional therapy, such as sedation. However, at the level of toxin already spread in the blood tissue
and already attached to the tissue, the toxin cannot be neutralized with any antibiotics. So, keep
health is very important.