Anthrax per-acute form of disease symptoms is very sudden and imminent death due to brain hemorrhage. The symptoms are shortness of breath, trembling, and then the animal fell. In some cases showed symptoms of seizures. In cattle, sheep and goats, death may occur without showing symptoms of the disease earlier.
Acute form of anthrax in cattle, horses and sheep, symptoms at first fever, patient anxiety, then depression, sopor, breathing hard, frequent and a weak heartbeat, seizures, and patients die soon. During the disease progresses, the fever may reach 41.5 0C, rumination stopped, reduced milk production, in cattle that are pregnant may miscarry. From the holes out excreta kumlah may bleed. Anthrax in horses with acute symptoms can include fever, chills, severe colic, no appetite, severe depression, muscle weakness, bloody diarrhea, swelling in the neck, chest, lower abdomen and on the outer genitals.
Chronic form of anthrax usually found in pigs, but sometimes also found in cattle, horses and dogs with local lesions are confined to the tongue and throat. In one group of pigs that received the infection, some of them may die of pigs with acute anthrax disease without showing symptoms earlier. Several other pigs showed rapid swelling of the throat, which, in some cases causing death due to weak. Most pigs in the group suffered from mild chronic anthrax, which would gradually recover. When pigs are slaughtered, the cervical lymph glands and tonsils have anthrax infection.
Clinical picture as mentioned above may vary, depending on the extent of disease and type of animals affected.
1. On Anthrax usually causes colic horses, perhaps because torsil intestinal or invagination, not accompanied by accumulation of feces and gas. Often accompanied by edema in the neck, chest, shoulders and pharynx. Edema is different from the swelling caused by 'purpura hemorrhagica', because of rapid development, there is pain, high fever and its localization differences. Symptoms of anxiety are rarely found but always experiencing shortness of breath and bluish. These diseases usually end up 8-36 hours, or sometimes up to 3-8 days.
2. In cattle, early symptoms is less clear except for high fever up to 42 oC. generally the cows continued to shepherd or treated. In similar circumstances it may be sudden death dikandang cow, the shepherds in the fields or while being employed.
This disease is marked by anxiety, time munching gore hard objects, can then be followed by symptoms of common diseases such as animal becomes weak, the heat, the body is not uniform, thigh trembling, pain include the waist, abdomen or the entire body. No appetite. Milk secretion and rumination stopped. Slightly swollen belly. At the peak of the disease the blood out through the anus, mouth, nostrils and his urine mixed with blood. In some cases there is strong hump-hump containing clear fluid or pus, on the mucous membranes of the mouth there are spots, the tongue was swollen and bluish, and saliva from the mouth. Sometimes there are primary pharyngeal anthrax.
Common symptoms of anthrax in the form of swelling in the neck, chest, sides of stomach, waist, and external genitalia. The swelling developed rapidly and expanded, if the heat groped, his consistency lembik or hard skin in the area were normal or there tersebet wound exudate liquid that emits light yellow color. Continued swelling of the neck often cause pharyngtis and edema glottis, causing shortness of breath a burdensome disease. In the rectum there is swelling of the mucous membranes in the form of hump-hump. Such swelling can also occur because of infection at the time of rectal exploration or emptying the contents of the intestine.
In some cases it is difficult and painful bowel movement, stool with blood, dark red and peeling necrotic tissue. Sometimes there is ejection of the rectum. Perineal region is swollen. Hot mucous membranes. On hot mucous membranes. In the vaginal mucous membrane edema often have gelatin.
Primary and secondary skin anthrax is rarely there. The disease is usually terminated after 10-36 hours, sometimes up to 2-5 days.
Chronic anthrax can occur in cows that lasted 2-3 months. The animals are suffering from the disease will become thin fast.
1. In sheep and goats, usually form perakut with cerebral apopleksi changes, the animals attacked a sudden dizziness, spinning, shaking and die teeth in just a few minutes after the blood out of the holes of the body. In the case of a less rapid, the disease lasted for several hours, with signs: restless, swirling, heavy and fast respiration, heart pounding, bloody stool and bladder. Saliva from the mouth and convulsions occur. Edema and enteritis avis.
2. In pigs, the disease symptoms such as fever and swelling in the area pharyngtis with subparotidea and larynx that goes fast (Anthraxangana). The swelling may extend from neck to forehead face and chest, causing difficulty eating and breathing. Bluish mucous membranes, the skin there are red stains, diarrhea, dysphagia, vomiting and shortness of breath caused animals to suffocate.
In cases without neck swelling, symptoms may only be weak, no appetite, and segregate. At the local anthrax or chronic, animals often appear normal.
3. In dogs and meat eaters (Carnivora) others, the symptoms of diseases such as gastroenteritis and pharyngitis, but sometimes just a fever. After eating meat containing anthrax germs, lips and tongue become swollen, or arising hump-hump in the upper jaw. Sometimes common infections can occur through the mucous membrane erosion in the esophagus.
4. In humans, often found in the form of (cutaneous) localized attacks, anthrax can also be called local. On the injury occurred to pain, which was followed by the formation of a pale red knob (karbongkel), which grew to blackish red with clear liquid. When a rupture would leave necrotic tissue. The next hump appears near each other. Tension surrounding tissue, swollen with dark red color on the surrounding skin. When the symptoms of fever appeared at the same time, infection becomes common (generalist) and the patient died because of 'septisemi'.
Form of bowel (intestinal) is often accompanied haemoragik, The pain that is in the area peryt, vomiting, stiff and ended with the collapse and die.
On past form of respiratory infection, occur pleuritis and broncho-pneumoni.
Combined forms can also occur. After infection of the intestine and then came swelling is edema in other parts of the body.
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