One of the infected people has the skin “infection” type anthrax. The best of the three possible ways of getting it.
They say its easily treated.
Question.
Does that mean that she is or will be immune to it ?
It just means she got the spores on her skin instead of breathing them in. Immunity to anthrax appears to exist, but is very poorly understood.
As far as I’m aware, no.
The treatment for anthrax is antibiotics which kills the anthrax spores.
Antibiotics are different from vaccines. Vaccines contain a small (non-lethal) amount of the bacteria and, once your body is exposed to this bacteria, your immune system kicks in and develops immunity.
Antibiotics don’t contain any of the enemy bacteria they just kill it outright. So no immunity can be developed.
If I heard correctly the skin type “infection” is so “weak” that the body has been known to cure it itself.With that in mind would you be immunized?
justwannano that is a very good question. I heard that the skin type anthrax is only fatal in 20% of the cases and therefore 80% would be immune. But the question may be whether they would be immune to the lung type anthrax. If this was a test I’d guess that “yes” they would be, but the two seem to be so different that I’m not sure.
I listened to the news all today and that is all they talked about: anthrax.
Still, if worst comes to worst there is an anthrax vaccine.
Not necessarily. Some diseases confer lifelong immunity, but some don’t. As I said, immunity in anthrax is poorly understood. Checking my textbook, it appears that certain toxins that may or may not be present are required for immunity.