Also report to the appropriate livestock or agriculture authority. Even a single case of human anthrax, especially of the inhalational variety, is so unusual that it should be reported immediately to both public health and law enforcement authorities for consideration of a bioterrorist source. Standard precautions for the duration of illness for cutaneous and inhalation anthrax. Antibiotic therapy sterilizes a skin lesion within 24 hours, but the lesion progresses through its typical cycle of ulceration, sloughing and resolution. Of discharges from lesions and articles soiled therewith.
Spores require steam sterilization, autoclaving or burning to ensure complete destruction.
Fumigation and chemical disinfection may be used for valuable equipment. In a manufacturing plant, inspect for adequacy of preventive measures as outlined in 9A, above. As mentioned in 9B1, a potential bioterrorist source may need to be ruled out for all human cases of anthrax, especially for those cases with no obvious occupational source of infection. Tetracyclines, erythromycin and chloramphenicol are also effective. The occasional epidemics in the USA are local industrial outbreaks among employees who work with animal products, especially goat hair.