# The germ Bacillus Anthracis causes Anthrax.
# Anthrax word derived from the Greek word for coal, anthrakis.
# A German scientist Robert Koch discovered this during the 1870s. He later won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
# Anthrax mostly affects hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats
# It is common in the countries of south and central America, south and east Europe, Asia and Africa.
# Three forms of Anthrax may be found in humans
* Cutaneous or skin anthrax
* Pulmonary or inhalation anthrax (Both are treatable)
* Gastrointestinal or ingested anthrax is usually fatal.
* It cannot be passed from human to human, It may be spread to human only by being exposed to large numbers of its spores.
# 48-year-old woman died in Scotland in 1971. It is the last known death from anthrax..
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