In addition to two cases in Florida, with the new case Thursday and four earlier ones in the Washington area, seven people have now definitely contracted pulmonary anthrax.
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"The World Trade Center was attacked; the Pentagon was attacked; American Media was attacked . . . . It's the first case of pulmonary anthrax in 25 years.
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The first case of pulmonary anthrax, a much more serious form of infection, in the metropolitan region was confirmed earlier this week in a postal worker from near Trenton.
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The germs can hang, invisibly, in the air and get absorbed in the lungs of those exposed to it, causing pulmonary anthrax, the most deadly form of the disease.
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To diagnose pulmonary anthrax in someone who is ill, doctors incubate samples of blood, spinal or respiratory fluids on a culture plate, a process that takes up to a day.
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He proposes, based on a reexamination of the evidence and symptoms, that the Black Death may actually have been an epidemic of pulmonary anthrax caused by " Bacillus anthracis ".
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He added that if letters did pick up some spores, they would probably be in small clumps likely to cause less serious skin anthrax instead of the more serious pulmonary anthrax.
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The two workers who are hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax are at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va . They are seriously ill and are being treated aggressively with antibiotics, the authorities said.
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A pulmonary anthrax infection starts with ordinary influenza-like symptoms and progresses to a lethal hemorrhagic mediastinitis within 3 7 days, with a fatality rate that is 90 % or higher in untreated patients.
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Dr . Venkat Mani, a spokesman at the Southern Maryland Medical Center in Clinton, said the cause of death of the 47-year-old man had been listed as preliminary pulmonary anthrax and septic shock.
