Anthrax

Anthrax

There are three recognized forms of infection with Bacillus anthracis:

1.      Cutaneous anthrax.

2.     Gastrointestinal anthrax.

3.     Inhalational (pulmonary) anthrax.

Cutaneous Anthrax

CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER (CCHF)

CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER (CCHF)

INTRODUCTION :

Haemorrhagic fever cover a wide field in medicine (infectious and non infectious) that cause fever associated with fever. The term viral haemorrhagic fever is restricted to  some groups of RNA viruses in which the fever is associated with significant bleeding tendency in addition to the other features. These groups and diseases caused by them is shown in the table below.