Pulmonary anthrax

Pulmonary anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis. The original herbivorous animal infectious disease, people were infected by contact with sick animals and their products or eating meat of sick animals. The fur containing anthrax spores contaminates the air and causes lung anthrax. Can be secondary to bacillus anthracis sepsis. The bacterium was first discovered by Robert Koch in 1877. Anthrax is a serious disease with widespread distribution.

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